#PORTRAIT OF A LADY

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of a Lady (1565-1575), (detail), by Anthonis Mor (1516-1576), oil on canvas, 95.8 × 77 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid

[peaceinthestorm]

Enrico Lionne (1865-1921, Italian) ~ Figura di donna o Ritratto di Violette, 1920

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Sir Hubert von Herkomer CVO RA (Bavarian-born British, 1849-1914) Miss Katherine Grant (The Lady in White), 1885

[elysabeththequeene]

 On September 21 1578, Robert Dudley married Lettice Knollys in a secret ceremony, it had been secretive that only his chaplain and his friends were informed of it the day before. The Earl of Leicester was marrying the woman Elizabeth I had dubbed "the She-Wolf", the Queen herself was filled with rage upon learning about their marriage that she banished Lettice from court, however she was able to rekindle with Dudley later on.

[cinematic-phosphenes]

Mrs Alec Tweedie (detail), 1894 Herbert Gustave Schmalz

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) - Portrait of a Lady, Three-Quarter Length Seated, Dressed in a Gold Embroidered Elaborate Costume (1620)

[from-a-spiders-web]

The Exile: Heavy is the Price I Paid for Love, c. 1930 Thomas Cooper Gotch

[artschoolglasses]

Portrait of a Lady, John Downman, 1783

[kindercelery]

Think she slayed

[1700-something]

Portrait of a Lady, Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1790s

Denver Art Museum

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of a Lady (1739), (detail), by Nicolas de Largillière (French, 1656-1746), oil on canvas, 61.5 × 66 cm, (whereabouts unknown)

[peaceinthestorm]

Eduard Friedrich Leybold (1798-1879, German) ~ Portrait of a young elegant lady, three-quarter length, in a red dress with an embroidered shawl, standing in a landscape, 1824

[Source: Christie's]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (German, 1750-1812) Amalie von Levetzow (1788-1868), 1803 The 15-year-old Amalie of Levetzow appears delicate, graceful and almost floating. The life-size portrait was created on the occasion of her wedding, whereupon the pigeon with the myrtle branch. Tischbein was a sought-after portraitist. He had trained with his uncle in Kassel as well as in Paris and Rome and gave his figures with great painting fineness and liveliness. Amalie became the mother of Ulrike von Levetzow, who fell in love with Marienbad, 72-year-old Goethe 17 years later.

[elysabeththequeene]

nicole kidman + art (love's shadow by frederick sandys, 1867. lettice knollys by george gower, 1585. in the grass by arthur hughes, 1865.)

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Portrait Of A Lady (detail), c. 1876. John Robert Dicksee (English, 1817 - 1905ï>)

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see - that’s my idea of happiness. 

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady