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Wealthy merchant John Pybus & family: apparently everyone but the baby got the memo to wear something pink.
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National Gallery Victoria🇦🇺
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Approx 1769
Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano, wife of the Spanish ambassador to Parma, is dressed as a maja for a 1771 #Carnival masquerade or ridotto.
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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#ArtLoversAdvent 6 BONUS:
Reynolds’s great rival,🇬🇧Thos Gainsborough (1727-1788) loved painting landscapes but the ££ was in portraiture. Thus, his portraits often contain detailed landscape backgrounds. Light, swift, almost swirling brushstrokes are also classic TG.
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#ArtLoversAdvent 5:
Sir Thos Lawrence🇬🇧(1769-1830) was a child prodigy who became the greatest portraitist of his era. Notice how his bold, blurred lines still manage to suggest remarkable detail. His colours pop & he beautifully conveys his sitters’ personalities.
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Want to impress your friends next time you’re at an art museum? Follow the hashtag #ArtLoversAdvent for 24 days featuring the long #C18th Greatest Of All Time artists (GOATest, as my kids say) & how to recognize them! #ArtHistory
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I’ve shown many #ArtLovers portraits of Lady Hamilton, but when Élisabeth-Louise Le Brun painted Nelson’s lover, we always see … teeth! Le Brun admired Emma’s beauty, but had no kind words for Emma’s intelligence. Didn’t stop her from painting Emma at least 3 times, though.
This 1785 self-portrait of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard with two of her students deserves its fame. The composition, the lighting, & the exquisite textures (zoom in on the feathers, satin, ruffles & velvet!!) are all *chef’s kiss* 💋!!
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At the Met
Weird & horrible #ArtLovers continues with Cruikshank’s 1808 print ‘The Dance of Death Modernized’. Zoom in on this high-res picture from @britishmuseum to read each figure’s protest when Death asks for their hand. I’ve included a few detail pics, but they are all delightful.
Next on #ArtLovers #GrandTour, it’s time to buy some Old Masters & antiquities to take home. Hopefully you listened to your tutor’s lessons so when you visit the shops, you aren’t taken in by ‘Italian Picture Dealers Humbugging My Lord Anglaise’.
Rowlandson
1812
The Met
Four people in a park, featuring the barely-there muslin frocks and ultra-tight trousers popular in France after the Revolution.
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@MuseeLouvre
1795
Possibly by Marguerite Gérard