#Enoch Seeman the Younger

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1741 Attributed to Enoch Seeman the Younger - Lady Sophia and Lady Charlotte Fermor (probably at a masquerade of the Duchess of Norfolk)

(Private collection via Sotheby’s)

[gogmstuff]

Early 1730s dresses (from top to bottom) -

1730 Tea Party at Lord Harrington's by C. Phillips detail (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut, USA). Probably from Wikimedia; fixed spots with Pshop 1247X1623. There are many caps and veils, square necklines, and laced bodices with revers. But full-blown panniers are not to be seen.

1730 Marquise de Gueydan as Flora by Nicolas de Largillière (Musée Granee - Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France). From cutlermiles.com/portrait-of-marquise-de-gueydan-as-flora-nicolas-de-largilliere/ 1908X2484. She wears a stout Swiss belt and cleft coiffure that harken back to the late Louis XIV era.

ca. 1730 Empress Elisabeth Christine by Johann Gottfried Auerbach (auctioned, probably by Lempertz). From Wikimedia trimmed 1715X2352. She wears a round skirt and a scoop neckline.

ca. 1730 Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, Queen of Sardinia by Maria Giovanna Clementi (location ?). From tumblr.com/blog/view/jeannepompadour; enlarged by half 1053X1385. Her dress has a deep V neckline filled in by a modesty piece.

ca. 1730 Rhoda Apreece, Mrs Francis Blake Delaval attributed to Enoch Seeman the Younger (Seaton Delaval - Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, UK). From artuk.org; enlarged by half 994X1200. The ruff makes this a Van Dyck revival dress. The laced vest and jaunty hat lend a casual air to the portrait.

ca. 1730 Robe volante (Musée de la Mode - Paris, France). From fripperiesandfobs.tumblr.com-post-139802377452-robe-volante-ca-1730-from-the-palais-galliera 1140X1620. Dresses before the 1750s often had cuffs that could be substantial like these.

1731 Die Liebeserklärung by Jean François de Troy (Sanssouci, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin - Brandenburg, Germany). From artsandculture.google.com/asset/die-liebeserklärung-jean-françois-de-troy/XAFpCyLiWrxHZw?h 3074X24.12. Known in the Anglophone world as “The Declaration of Love. The large patterns mark this as early century. The robe à la française is firmly established in the form it would take until the late Louis XVI period.

1731 Infanta Maria Teresa Antonia de Borbón by Jean Ranc (Museo del Prado - Madrid, Spain). From their Web site; removed spots and streaks with Photoshop 2621X3051. Spain was ruled by Borbóns after the last Habsburg was cleared out in the early 1700s.

1731 Julia Calverley, Lady Trevelyan, by Enoch Seeman the Younger (Wallington Hall - Wallington, Northumberland, UK). From nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/584399; erased navigation marks in corners & fixed spots w Pshop 1616X1992. Clasps replace lacing to close this bodice.

1731 Lady by John Vanderbank (location ?). From the Philip Mould Historical Portraits Image Library 920X1214. The dress is Van Dyck revival similar to the one worn by Rhoda Apreece.

[centuriespast]

Portrait of an Unknown Lady Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694–1745) National Trust, Kedleston Hall and Eastern Museum

[fawnvelveteen]

Here is an example of British portrait casual from the early eighteenth century:

Lady Maynard by Enoch Seeman the younger, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

[met-european-paintings]

Sir James Dashwood (1715–1779), Enoch Seeman the Younger, 1737, European Paintings

Victor Wilbour Memorial Fund, 1956 Size: 96 x 60 1/4 in. (243.8 x 153 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437648

[delphinidin4]

Today in “Eighteenth-Century Women Who Could Pull a Mulan”

^Portrait of Mrs. Allen, John Singleton Copley, 1763

^ Portrait of a Lady in a Riding Habit by Enoch Seeman the younger

^Louise-Elisabeth de France, duchess of Parma by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1760

[galleryofunknowns]

Follower of Enoch Seeman, ‘Portrait of Elizabeth Allen’, 1700s, sold for 2,000 GBP at Sotheby’s Two Great Scottish Property Auctions, March 2017.

Elizabeth Allen was the second wife of Alexander Forbes, 4th and last Lord of Pitsligo, who participated in the Jacobite rebellion. Alexander traveled to France when he was young, obtaining there a love of writing - eventually culminating in his first published work, Essays Moral and Philosophical. He was also a friend of the Stuart family, twice taking up arms to rebel; but when it failed, he moved into hiding around the moors of Pitsligo, disguised as a hermit, then later living under the name ‘Mr. Brown’ with his son John. He narrowly avoided capture in 1756, hiding in a small recess behind a bed when a search party came to comb the home in which he lived. He died, presumably never captured, in 1762, with one son by his first wife, Rebecca Norton. (From Henderson, T. M. (1900). Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 19. (pg. 377). 

His son retained the title of ‘Master of Pitsligo’, and the property moved by descent through William Forbes the Younger (b.1773 - d.1828) into the Fettercairn House, owned by Miss Williamina Belsches (b. 1776 - d.1810), whom William fell in love with and eventually married - much to the chagrin of Sir Walter Scott, who was quite in love with her and wrote several works inspired by her.

The Estate of Fettercairn house was divided up and sold via Sotheby’s in March 2017.

[candycloth]

"Elizabeth Felton, Countess of Bristol", Enoch Seeman the younger, 1738; NT 851818.2

[the-met-art]

Sir James Dashwood (1715–1779) by Enoch Seeman the Younger via European Paintings

Medium: Oil on canvas

Victor Wilbour Memorial Fund, 1956 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437648

[gogmstuff]

1730s Close out, for a while (from top to bottom) -

ca. 1735 Elisabetta Algarotti Dandolo by Rosalba Carriera (location ?). From pinterest.com/source/karoline-von-manderscheid.tumblr.com/ 1034X1341.

ca. 1735 Probably Maria Clementina Sobieska by Pier Leone (Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie - Warszawa, Poland). From Google Art Project via Wikimedia; fixed spots w Pshop 2251X3000.

ca. 1735/1740 Lady Mary Bellings-Arundell, Baroness Arundell of Wardour (1716–1769) by Enoch Seeman the Younger (Oxburgh Hall - Oxburgh, near Swffham, Norfolk, UK). From Wikimedia 943X1200.

ca. 1737 Maria Josepha of Austria by Louis de Silvestre (Stadtgeschichtliches Museum - Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany) From Google Art Project via liveinternet.ru/users/marylai/post292168318/ 2345X300.

ca. 1738 Princess Amellia of Great Britain by Jean Baptiste van Loo (auctioned by Sotheby's). Probably from Wikimedia; fixed spots & cracks w Pshop 1308X1713.

ca. 1739 Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern by Antoine Pesne (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten - specific location ?). From Wikimedia; fixed spots w Pshop 2431X3322.

ca. 1739 Lady by Herman van der Mijn (location ?). From tumblr.com/jeannepompadour 642X792.

ca. 1739-1740 Woman Standing in a Garden by Arthur Devis (location ?). From history-of-fashion.tumblr.com/post/123799742529/ab-1739-1740-arthur-devis-portrait-of-a-woman via pinterest.com/amisiak1193/stroje-damskie-1700-1800/;  fit to screen 1980X2870.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1725-1730 Enoch Seeman the Younger - Lady Rachel Cavendish, Lady Morgan, as a Shepherdess

(Tredegar House)

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1720-1729 Attributed to Enoch Seeman the Younger - John Blathwayt

(Dyrham Park)

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1735-1740 Enoch Seeman the Younger - Caroline Paget, Lady Bayly

(Plas Newydd House and Gardens)

[history-of-fashion]

1741 Enoch Seeman the Younger - The Cust Family

(Belton House, Lincolnshire)

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1737 Attributed to Enoch Seeman the Younger - An Unknown Gentleman, probably Sir Nicholas Bayly 2nd Bt

(Plas Newydd House and Gardens)

[history-of-fashion]

1728 Enoch Seeman the Younger - Portrait of Anna Maria Mordaunt and her brother Charles Mordaunt

(Burghley House)