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Leisure and Society | George Eliot | Exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1867 and now in the National Portrait Gallery
, this was said by those who knew GE
to be the best likeness of her. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 378 The portrait may... |
Leisure and Society | Grace Elliott | Thomas Gainsborough
painted GE
(already publicly known to be a courtesan) and caused scandal by exhibiting her portrait at the Royal Academy
. This painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York. Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. fig. 2 Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. 40, 227n83 |
Leisure and Society | Grace Elliott | Thomas Gainsborough
exhibited at the Royal Academy
another portrait of GE
, painted some months earlier while she was pregnant, staring defiantly at the viewer. This painting is now in the Frick Museum
, New York. Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. fig. 3 Conway, Alison. Private Interests. University of Toronto Press. 40, 227n84 Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Pen and Sword Books. 94 |
Leisure and Society | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
was exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1822. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 8 Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 36 Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 106 |
Leisure and Society | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Socially MEB
downplayed her status as an author, aided by the fact that as Mrs Maxwell—a name she went by even before marriage—she could move in society incognito. To this end, she attempted to... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Brunton | On her second visit she took in the Royal Academy
Exhibition and visited the National School
under the guidance of Dr Andrew Bell
(a Scots Anglican clergyman, formerly of Madras, author of An Experiment in... |
Literary responses | Q. D. Leavis | Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot
commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society... |
Literary Setting | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Miss Angel traces Kauffmann
's career as that of a serious artist and working woman who becomes a society figure and a founding member of the Royal Academy
in London, but slants its representation... |
Occupation | Sarojini Naidu | Earlier this year she had worked with British professionals in the arts to choose and assemble artefacts for a major exhibition of Indian art at the Royal Academy
in London during the coming winter. Roberts, Cleo. “1947: India, Art and Nationhood”. London Library Magazine, No. 38, pp. 22-5. 24-5 |
Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom... |
Occupation | Rosemary Sutcliff | She began to work as a miniature painter, following advice from her parents and the headmaster of Bideford Art School
(who allowed her to use an empty room there as her studio) that she would... |
Occupation | Pat Arrowsmith | The young PA
was serious about her drawing and painting. She showed considerable talent and her diary records a high investment of time in these pursuits. She sold a pencil copy of a landscape (in... |
Occupation | Emilie Barrington | EB
, who was artistically gifted, entered work for the Royal Academy
Exhibition in 1871, while pregnant with her second child, but was not accepted. She claimed to have taken art lessons from Ruskin
... |
Occupation | Frances Reynolds | She was also already a painter on her own account. She had done a portrait of Joshua around 1746 (now in the Cottonian Collection in the city museum and art gallery of Plymouth) Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press. 264 |
Occupation | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
wrote later that many people thought her a singular, and perhaps imprudent person, because I rhymed, and ventured into the world as an artist; but I belonged to a large family, and dreaded dependence... |
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