#Elizabeth Keppel

[diioonysus]

black women + art

[insane-in-the-membranee]

Women? Women.

Cleopatra (John William Waterhouse) || A Stolen Glance (Eugene de Blaas) || The Accolade (Edmund Blair Leighton) || Unknown || The Reluctant Bride (August Toulmouche) || Head of a Young Girl 1777 (Jean Baptiste Greuze) || War Pieta (Max Ginsburg) || Lady Elizabeth Keppel (Joshua Reynolds) || Joan of Arc (John Everett Millais) ||

[unanchored-ship]

so this is William's time with my stoopid headcanons might have to zoom in to read stuff

heres a color coded version if the arrows are too confusing lol

hang on just to be sure the dark teal arrow from Fenwick is directed at Marly not Prior's arrow okay thanks

but then again it could also work since Fentwink doesnt like William

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 - 1792) Lady Elizabeth Keppel, 1761

Full length, decorating Term of Hymen; in bridesmaids dress of flowered satin; a Black attendant holds flower wreath; at foot of column is a burning censer; curtain draped over tree. 2nd state of 5: on upper step of pedestal 4 Latin lines.

Reynolds’s “sitter-book” records eight appointments with Lady Keppel (1739–1768). The woman who accompanies her had two independent morning sittings in December 1761 (both after Keppel had been painted). We do not know her name, in place of which Reynolds entered a single word—“negro”—in his notebook. This terse archival trace confirms that she, like Lady Keppel, was painted from life. She is shown handing Keppel a garland of flowers with which to deck a statue of Hymen, the god of marriage. This detail alludes to Keppel’s recent role as a bridesmaid at the wedding of George III and Queen Charlotte. The dress worn by the servant may either be of glazed cotton, British silk, or possibly painted Chinese silk. If the woman was indeed Keppel’s servant, her dress may be a hand-me-down from her mistress, as was common in this period. The portrait (now at Woburn Abbey, UK) was exhibited at the Society of Artists as Whole length of a lady, one of her majesty’s bride maids. It was paid for by Lady Keppel’s brother, the third Earl of Albemarle (1724–1772). In 1762, shortly after the painting was finished, he would command British forces at the Battle of Havana, which resulted in Spain’s surrender of Cuba. This key victory of the Seven Years’ War reshaped the balance of power in the Atlantic. Gallery label for Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14).

[world-of-wales]

⋆ William, The Conqueror to Princess Charlotte of Wales ⋆

⤜ William I is Princess Charlotte's 31st Great-Grandfather via her paternal grandmother's line through Charles Lennox

William I of England

Henry I of England

Empress Matilda

Henry II of England

John of England

Henry III of England

Edward I of England

Edward II of England

Edward III of England

Lionel of Antwerp, Ist Duke of Clarence

Philippa Plantagenet, Vth Countess of Ulster

Roger Mortimer, IVth Earl of March

Anne Mortimer

Richard Plantagenet, IIIrd Duke of York

Edward IV of England

Elizabeth of York

Margaret Tudor

James V, King of Scotland

Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland

James I of England

Charles I of England

Charles II of England

Charles Lennox, Ist Duke of Richmond

Lady Anne Lennox

Lady Elizabeth Keppel

John Russell, VIth Duke of Bedford

Lady Louisa Jane Russell

James Hamilton, IInd Duke of Abercorn

James Hamilton, IIIrd Duke of Abercorn

Lady Cynthia Hamilton

John Spencer, VIIIth Earl Spencer

Diana, Princess of Wales

William, The Prince of Wales

Princess Charlotte of Wales

[defensivelee]

yayyy my beloveds (except the guy in the top right lol I don't even know his name)

i will say i do not like how Keppel is described as stupid, like he wasn't particularly clever but i don't think William would have liked him if he truly was just an idiot.... like the reason he hung around Elizabeth Villiers was bc she was witty and she entertained him so like?! i don't think he was completely empty lel

it does seem very sympathetic to Bentinck tho, says he wrote to William with a broken heart. nice 👍👍👍

[everythingroyalty]

name musings for eug and jack's 2 baby pls!

It'd be my pleasure, anon!

Going off of August's name, I think the Brooksbanks are excellent namers 🥰 I was always bothered by August because everyone assumes it's for Prince Albert and not to shit on anyone's picnic but using someone's random middle name doesn't constitute as "nAmiNg AfTeR" them. BUT after going over their family tree, I like to believe Albert isn't the great-great-great-great-great-grandfather he was named for after all 👀

Anyway, musings under the cut because as always it became way too long:

I've seen Coke getting thrown around as a potential middle name because that's the last name of one of their shared ancestors. I think that's pretty neat but I also sort of wonder if the fact they didn't use it instead of Hawke for August means they wouldn't be fond of using it. Alternatives could be Wenman, Keppel or Sebright which are also names of shared ancestors. A middle name I think would be neat and could work regardless of gender is York as it's both a last name on Jack's side of the family and obviously holds significance on Eugenie's as well.

For a boy, I think George in honour of Jack's dad is a shoo-in as a middle name like Philip was for August. I really like Casper for them. I think it goes really nice with August.

Casper George Coke

Montague "Monty" George York

Albert "Albie" George Sebright

Christopher "Kit" Fergus George

Alexander George Wenman

For a girl, I think Elizabeth in the middle or a variation as a first is a safe bet. Eliza would be pretty cool as it's also a family name on both sides of the family (incidentally the name of a great-great-great-great-great-grandmother on each side). I still really like Iona which was my wildcard for them with August but I don't know 😅

Cecilia Elizabeth Susan

Amelia Olive Elizabeth

Eliza Georgiana York

Isabella Georgiana Coke

Louisa Elizabeth Sebright

[ask-the-attorneys]

Keppel: “well I can send you over to Miss baker, her home is at (insert random location here).”

Elizabeth: “…….im sorry, did you just say where she lived without at the very least questioning what we plan to do there? For all you know we would want to murder her.”

[Duke]

That'd be because he's helping with the investigation, for whatever reason.

(Whether that's supposed to be to get out of this, or to actually help is beyond me.)

[Eleanor]

And you're telling us NOW?!

[creartistiq-blog]

Well-born and educated at Eton and the Slade School of Art, W.B. Ellis Ranken 1881/1941 had an idyllic childhood in a wealthy family living on vast estates in Scotland and England.

The Young Polo Player, 1920s

At the Slade 1899/1903, he met Ernest Thesiger, his lover and friend who would remain a part of his lifelong inner circle. Thesiger married Janette, one of Ranken's three sisters, in 1917

Ernest Thesiger,

In 1907, he moved to Chelsea to live among the Edwardian aesthetes. The gay photographer Baron De Meyer and his wife, Olga, became close friends. John Singer Sargent, took him under his wing, their studios were just a stone's throw away

Young Man Sketching 1920s.

Ranken's many clients and friends were gay, lesbian or bisexual. They included composer Cole Porter; writer Violet Keppel Trefusis, lover of Vite Sackville-West;

Hibiscus Flower, c.1922

Anne Morgan, daughter of the famous banker; decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Morgan's lover; dynamic literary agent Elizabeth Marbury, also Wolfe's lover;

Anglo-Indian Student.1922s

Henry Davis Sleeper, and of course collector, companion and long-time friend, actor Ernest Thesiger, who married Ranken's sister Janette in 1917 at his request.

Hall at Warbrook, 1933

But more importantly, are William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp, and his 2nd son, Hugh Lygon, the model for Sebastian Flyte, the catalyst for Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited.

1927, Hugh Lygon, the model for Sebastian Flyte.

In this life of English high society and its privileges that is reflected in his paintings, Ranken was not openly or explicitly gay, as almost no one else was at the time, simply Ranken was a man of the world, aware of his own nature.

The Garden Door, 1926

W.B. Ellis Ranken at 21yo by Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1902

Although it is not proven, it is likely that these portraits of young people were of his lovers.

[gogmstuff]

It’s 1761 -

1761 The first Lord and Lady Scarsdale walking in the grounds of Kedleston Hall by Nathaniel Hone (Kedleston Hall -Derbyshire, UK). From titam.tumblr.com; size doubled and image made sharper 1140X1600 @300 282kj.

1761 Two ladies in elegant costume - study for 'The Harpsichord Lesson' by Jean-Michel Moreau (auctioned by Christie's). From their Web site (1087X1364 @72 662kj.

ca. 1761 Maria Elisabeth Otth geb. Stettler by ? (location ?). From liveinternet.ru/users/svetlana_kb/post457431702/; adjusted height to fit screen 997X1300 @96 244kj.

1761 Lady Anstruther by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Tate Collection - London, UK). From tate.org.uk/documents/1642/2020_pecuniary_legacy.pdf; erased spots w Pshop 3703X4783 @150 2.9Mj.

ca. 1761 Countess Anna Eleanora Lowenheim by ? (auctioned by Bukowskis). From liveinternet.ru/users/5559804/post354456165 1668X2048 @72 1.5Mj.

1761 Lady Elizabeth Keppel by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Woburn Abbey - Woburn, Bedfordshire, UK). From wikijp.org/wiki/Peter_Toms_%28painter%29 1280X1882 @72 496kj.

1761 Sophie Charlotte Königin von Großbritannien und Irland, Kurfürstin bzw. Königin von Hannover by Jeremiah Meyer (Tansey Miniatures Foundation collection, Bomann-Museum - Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany). From tansey-miniatures.com/sammlung 76.2X924 @72 865kj.

1761 Maria Amalia de Sajonia by Anton Rafael Mengs (Museo del Prado - Madrid, Spain). From liveinternet.ru/users/marylai/post292168318 2222X3051 @72 1.6Mj.

[diioonysus]

women + portraits

[artist-joshua-reynolds]

Lady Elizabeth Keppel, 1761, Joshua Reynolds

Medium: oil,canvas

[titam]

Lady Elizabeth Keppel adorning a term of Hymen, by Joshua Reynolds.

Reynolds’s “sitter-book” records eight appointments with Lady Keppel (1739–1768). The woman who accompanies her had two independent morning sittings in December 1761 (both after Keppel had been painted). We do not know her name, in place of which Reynolds entered a single word—“negro”—in his notebook.

Elizabeth Keppel was born 15th November 1739 to William Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1702-1754) and Anne Lennox (1703-1789) and died 2nd November 1768 Lisbon, Portugal of consumption. She married Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (1739-1767) 1 June 1764 .

Keppel was a bridesmaid at the wedding of George III and Queen Charlotte.  The portrait (now at Woburn Abbey, UK) was paid for by Lady Keppel’s brother, the third Earl of Albemarle (1724–1772).

[lauravias]

Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, was one of the most notorious American serial killers. He is known to have kidnapped, raped and killed at least 36 young women in 1970s and probably earlier. He was executed in the electric chair in 1989. His murders have inspired many novels and films about serial killers.

Photo of Ted Bundy

His mother was Eleanor Louise Cowell, who was 22 years old and unmarried when she gave birth to Bundy. His biological father's identity may never be confirmed, since on his birth certificate the father was listed as unknown; also, some rumours identify his father as his grandfather. For the first three years of his life, Bundy lived with his maternal grandparents and was told that his mother was his sister. He eventually discovered the truth and expressed a lifelong resentment toward his mother for never talking to him about his true parentage. In 1951 Louise met and married Johnny Culpepper Bundy, a hospital cook, and later that year the couple officially adopted Bundy, that took his name. He had a tense relationship with his stepfather, and complained to his girlfriend that Johnny "wasn't very bright” and "didn't make much money".

Ted Bundy’s parents, Eleanor Louise Cowell and  Johnny Culpepper Bundy

After graduating from high school in 1965, Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound for one year before transferring to the University of Washington. There, he fell in love with Stephanie Brooks, a wealthy and lovely young woman from California. He was devastated by their breakup, and many of his following victims resembled his college girlfriend. He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology in 1972.

Attacks and murders

There is no consensus on when or where Bundy began killing women. He told different stories to different people and refused to reveal the specifics of his first crimes. For example, he told his mother that he attempted his first kidnapping in 1969 in Ocean City, New Jersey, but did not kill anyone until 1971 in Seattle, yet told psychologist Art Norman that he had killed two women in Atlantic City in 1969.

Homicide detective Robert D. Keppel and biographer Ann Rule, who had previously worked with Bundy, both believed that he might have started killing as a teenager. Circumstantial evidence suggested that he may have kidnapped and killed eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr when he was 14 years old, but he repeatedly denied. His earliest documented homicides were committed in 1974, at the age of 27. The disappearances all took place at night, usually near ongoing construction work, and the victims were all young, attractive, and with long hair parted in the middle; at most crime scenes there were sightings of a man wearing a cast or a sling, and driving a brown or tan Volkswagen Beetle.

Photos of Ted Bundy's 1968 Volkswagen Beetle, in which he committed many of his crimes. The vehicle is on display at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. 

Items found in his car when he was arrested in 1975

His first confirmed attack occurred shortly after midnight on January 4, 1974, when Bundy entered the apartment of Joni Lenz. After bludgeoning her with a metal rod from her bed frame, he sexually assaulted her with either the same rod or a metal speculum. She survived, but with permanent physical and mental disabilities. In the early morning of February 1, 1974, Bundy broke into the room of Lynda Ann Healy; he beat her unconscious, dressed her in blue jeans, a white blouse, and boots, and carried her away. On March 12, Donna Gail Manson, left her dormitory to attend a jazz concert on campus, but never arrived. On April 17, Susan Elaine Rancourt disappeared while on her way to her dorm room after an advisors' meeting at Central Washington State College in Ellensburg. On May 6, Roberta Kathleen Parks left her dormitory to have coffee with her friends at the Memorial Union, but never arrived. On June 1, Brenda Carol Ball disappeared after leaving the Flame Tavern in Burien, near Seattle; she was last seen in the parking lot, talking to a brown-haired man. On June 11, UW student Georgann Hawkins disappeared while walking to her sorority house.

The murders culminated on July 14, 1974, when Bundy abducted two women, Denise Marie Naslund and Janice Anne Ott, in the daylight and from crowded areas. Five female witnesses said that a good-looking young man, who introduced himself as "Ted", asked their help to unload a sailboat from his car. Four girls refused, but one agreed and accompanied him to his car. She saw there was no sailboat and fled. Using the same story, he approached and abducted Janice Anne Ott and, approximately four hours later, Denise Marie Naslund. On September 6, 1974, two grouse hunters found the skeletal remains of the two girls near a service road in Issaquah. After these happenings, King County police disclosed a composite sketch, that was printed in regional newspapers and transmitted on local television stations. These are not the only murders that he committed, as it is believed that he has killed more than a hundred women.

Newspaper from 1974 warning young women about “Ted”, aka Ted Bundy

Timeline of Bundy’s attacks       

In 1974                       

Joni Lenz, age 18, survived the attack on January 4, 1974

Lynda Ann Healy, age 21, died on February 1, 1974

Donna Gail Manson, age 19, died on March 12, 1974

Susan Elaine Rancourt, age 18, died on April 17, 1974

Roberta Kathleen Parks, age 20, died on April 17, 1974

Brenda Carol Ball, age 22, died on June 1, 1974

Georgeann Hawkins, age 18, missing since June 11, 1974

Denise Marie Naslund, age 18, died on July 14, 1974

Janice Anne Ott, age 23, died on July 14, 1974

Nancy Wilcox, age 16, missing since October 2, 1974

Melissa Anne Smith, age 17, died on October 26, 1974

Laura Ann Aime, age 17, missing since October 31, 1974

Carol DaRonch, age 18, survived the attack on November 8, 1974

Debra Jean Kent, age 17, died on November 8, 1974

In 1975

Caryn Eileen Campbell, age 23, died on January 12, 1975

Julie Cunningham, age 26, died on March 15, 1975

Denise Lynn Oliverson, age 24, missing since April 6, 1975

Melanie Suzanne Cooley, age 18, died on April 15, 1975

Lynette Dawn Culver, age 12, missing since May 6, 1975

Susan Curtis, age 15, missing since June 27, 1975

In 1978

Margaret Elizabeth Bowman, age 21, died on January 15, 1978

Lisa Levy, age 20, died on January 15, 1978

Kathy Kleiner, age 20, attacked on January 15, 1978

Karen Chandler, age 22, attacked on January 15, 1978

Cheryl Thomas, age 21, attacked on January 15, 1978

Kimberly Dianne Leach, age 12, died on February 9, 1978

Arrests, last murders and death

On August 16, 1975, Utah Highway Patrol officer Bob Hayward arrested Bundy in Granger (a Salt Lake City suburb). The officer searched the car after he noticed that the front passenger seat had been removed and placed on the back seats. Inside he found a ski mask, a second mask created from pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, a rope, an ice pick, and other items. The police did not have enough evidence to detain Bundy, so he was released. Afterwards, Salt Lake City police placed him on 24-hour surveillance. 

Ted Bundy's 1975 Utah mug shot

In September Bundy sold his Volkswagen Beetle to a Midvale teenager and Utah police impounded it. Inside the car, FBI technicians found hairs of Caryn Campbell, and some hair strands "microscopically indistinguishable" from those of Melissa Smith and Carol DaRonch. There was sufficient evidence to charge him with aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault in the DaRonch case. Further investigation confirmed that he had not been with his girlfriend on any of the nights when the Pacific Northwest victims had vanished. In February 1976 Bundy stood trial for the DaRonch kidnapping, and after a four-day bench trial and a weekend of deliberation, he was found guilty. In June he was sentenced to 15 years in the Utah State Prison, and after a period of resistance he was transferred to Aspen in January 1977. 

While in the Pitkin County Courthouse's library, in Aspen, he opened a window and jumped out, managing to run away. He was a fugitive for six days, until two police officers found him and brought him back in jail. He planned his escape a second time; he sawed a hole of about one square foot between the steel reinforcing bars in his cell's ceiling and, on the night of December 30, stacked books on his bed to simulate his body, climbed into the crawl space and escaped. 

After evading, he travelled from Aspen to Tallahassee, Florida, passing from Chicago, Ann Arbor and Atlanta. There, on January 15, he attacked another five women, Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy who died, Kathy Kleiner, Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas who survived. On February 8 he attacked another woman, Kimberly Dianne Leach; her partially mummified remains were found in a pig farrowing shed near Suwannee River State Park, near Lake City. He was arrested four days later by police officer David Lee for having stolen a car. 

Two of Ted Bundy’s victims

After numerous trials and three death sentences, Bundy was executed at 7:16 a.m. on January 24, 1989, at the Florida State Prison in an electric chair. Outside the prison, hundres of people cheered, sang, danced and even set off fireworks. His body was cremated in Gainesville, and no public ceremony was held.

Sources:

Ted Bundy | Crimes, Death & Facts | - Britannica

Ted Bundy - Biography

Ted Bundy’s Victims - Women’sHealth

Ted Bundy - Wikipedia

[zermanion]

Hello! I just caught you in my notes, and I think your icon is really pretty! If you don't mind, can you tell me what painting it's from? Thank you!

Honestly i had no clue i had just found the cropped image on tumblr but then i got invested lol. the full painting is of the woman in my profile, whos never named unfortunately and is just listed as a servant, and Lady Elizabeth Keppel. It was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1761 and its just listed as Lady Elizabeth Keppel

here’s the full picture

i still prefer my version :/

[morbidology]

On March 12, 1974 Ted Bundy murdered Donna Manson and incinerated her skull in his girlfriends fireplace. Following is an excerpt from a conversation between himself and Robert Keppel:

���I never wanted to tell this - I promised myself I’d never tell this, because of all the things I did to this woman, this was probably the one she was least likely to forgive me for. Poor Liz. (He was referring to Elizabeth Kendall, his former fiancee.) In her fireplace. That’s not really that humorous, but I mean, the fireplace at the house.” Ted said.

“Burn it all up?” Keppel questioned.

“Down the the last ash, and in a fit of - you know - paranoia and cleanliness, what have you, just vacuumed down all the ashes. That’s the twist. It’s a twist. And it’s a lot of work and certainly very risky, under the circumstances. I mean, the kids come home from school, there’s a roaring fire in the fireplace, and it’s warm outside.”