#british portraiture

[portrait-paintings]

Mrs Violet M Hammersley

Artist: Phillip Wilson Steer (British, 1860-1942)

Date: 1906-1907

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

Steer's portrait in the grand tradition of aristocratic British portraiture stretching back to Gainsborough and Reynolds, yet it is painted with a vibrancy learnt from the French impressionists. The pose is taken from a portrait of Madame of Pompadour by Francois Boucher in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The sitter was sister-in-law Mrs Hugh Hammersley, whose memorable portrait by Sargent is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

[theaskew]

Eileen Agar (Argentine-British 1899-1991), Ladybird, 1936. Gelatin silver print with gouache and ink, 76 × 51 cm. 

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Lilies Artist: Gustav Pope (British [born Austria], 1831-1910) Date: 1895 Genre: floral painting; portraiture Period: Victorian Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 81.3 cm (32 in) high x 61 cm (24 in) wide Location: private collection

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Princess of Maria Carolina of Naples and Sicily (1825) (detail)

via les_princesses_immortelles

[the-cricket-chirps]

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, (1890-1978) The War Widow, c. 1923

[royalty-nobility]

Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)

Artist: François Flameng (French, 1856-1923)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of Edward VII.

Alexandra's family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the major European powers to succeed his second cousin Frederick VII as King of Denmark. At the age of sixteen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son and heir apparent of Queen Victoria. The couple married eighteen months later in 1863, the year in which her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother William was appointed king of Greece as George I.

Alexandra was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. Largely excluded from wielding any political power, she unsuccessfully attempted to sway the opinion of British ministers and her husband's family to favour Greek and Danish interests. Her public duties were restricted to uncontroversial involvement in charitable work.

On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as queen-empress. She became queen mother on Edward VII's death in 1910, at which point their son George V acceded to the throne. Alexandra died aged 80 in 1925.

Painting Description

This strikingly sophisticated and composed portrait of Queen Alexandra was painted by the French artist François Flameng in 1908. It is one the highlights of early 20th century royal portraiture. The Queen sits upon a stone step, gazing directly at the viewer; dressed in a white silk dress, diaphanous gauze suggested about her arms and shoulders. She is wearing Queen Victoria's small crown, the riband and star of the Order of the Garter, her collier résille necklace, made by Cartier in 1904, and the Koh-i-nûr in its brooch setting. A wooded landscape and suggestion of a building or castle in the background.

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (4/23/24) David Jagger (British, 1891-1958) Olga (1936) Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 89.5 cm. Private Collection

In the forward to the 1935 catalogue for the Jagger exhibition at London's Leger Galleries, the critic H. Granville Fell wrote of the artist's work: "Never did a painter's performance speak more clearly for itself. […] There is something plus, and beyond the mere portrait, a decorative quality, an amptitude of line and mass and a harmonious ensemble of color often daringly original, that place them in the higher category of works of art, and this is never the result of flashy accident, but the outcome of much pondering and intelligent brain work."

[sourkitsch]

Chess Players, 1807 — James Northcote

[vox-anglosphere]

On this day King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves

After a dismal first night, Henry quickly had the marriage annulled.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[lostinthesandsoftime]

Beauty Fashion

[bonafidexdopeness]

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[auseyre]

Honestly, it's giving Vigo the Carpathian. The contrast with the Pattinson painting is amazing.

I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ William Corden the Younger, Marie of Baden, Princess of Leiningen (1834-1899)

via pinterest

higher resolution here

[the-cricket-chirps]

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Nadia, ca. 1921

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (2/11/24) Charles Fairfax Murray (British, 1849–1919) Study of a Woman with a Book (1883) Graphite on paper, 35 x 25 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Elisha Whittelsey Collection)

Fairfax Murray trained under Edward Burne-Jones, worked for Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, then lived in Italy between 1875 and 1886. There he acted as agent for London's National Gallery, and formed an important collection of old master drawings later acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan. This portrait likely represents someone in the family circle of Marie Spartali Stillman and her American husband William Stillman—Marie was a Pre-Raphaelite painter and the couple moved between London and Florence in the 1880s. Fairfax Murray was close to the family and drew many of them in a way that echoes Renaissance prototypes.