#ralph earl

[history-of-fashion]

1789 Ralph Earl - Molly Marsh Seymour (Mrs. Moses Seymour) and her son Epaphroditus

(Saint Louis Art Museum)

[dozydawn]

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[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil painting, 1789, American.

Portraying Esther Boardman in a green dress and white fichu.

Painted by Ralph Earl.

Met Museum.

[art-portraits]

Mrs. Elijah Boardman and her Son, William Whiting Boardman

Artist: Ralph Earl (American, 1751-1801)

Date: c. 1796

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

[gori-thegorilla]

[la-hoire]

L.A. Noire Characters + "I want a baby" meme

[eve-to-adam]

Cecily Neville and her father, Ralph.

That's it. That's all the description I can do before I pass out.

[flyfishfly]

Almost halfway through my short but incredible journey on @phantomopera I keep being asked what it’s like wearing the mask again? All I can reply with is that it’s exciting, consuming, triggering and unbelievably surreal. The audiences have been amazing, as have the many moments caught on camera like this one of me and the @hollyannehull during #themusicofthenight taken by a member of our brilliant cast, @ralphwatts_

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[artemlegere]

Esther Boardman

Artist: Ralph Earl (American, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1751–1801)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1789

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York City

The Connecticut portraits Earl painted after returning from a seven-year stay in England are his greatest works as they combined his natural talents with the lessons he had gleaned from English art of the period. He rendered most of this portrait of Esther Boardman (1762–1851) in deep shades of green and brown to highlight his sitter’s striking face. Her alert gaze suggests intelligence, and her coiffure and wraparound dress, or levite, reveal her to be at the height of fashion, as was her brother, Elijah (whose portrait is also in the Museum's collection; 1979.395). The background shows the town of New Milford, which the Boardman family had been instrumental in settling.

"Nothing like reading a book, in the apparent quiet and silence, can unpredictably open up the view of new horizons of life." ~ Tullio De Mauro

[richmond-rex]

Margaret of Anjou had the most intimate interest in the wedding in 1456 of her kinswoman, Marie, daughter of Charles, count of Maine, to Thomas Courtenay, the son and heir of the earl of Devon. That this was a court-contracted marriage is suggested by the fact that Marie's wedding gown was supplied by the king's Great Wardrobe [...] The second notable marriage of 1457 to be arranged at court was that between the king's cousin, Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, and her third husband, Henry Stafford, second son of the duke of Buckingham. This additional bond among the king's blood relatives buttressed the Lancastrian regime and the royal family at a time when the survival of the dynasty rested on the young shoulders of Prince Edward, the only son and heir of King Henry VI and Queen Margaret.

— Ralph A. Griffiths, "The King's Court during the Wars of the Roses" | King and Country: England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century

It is, indeed, a striking fact that no aristocratic marriages of comparable significance took place outside the court circle in these crucial years before the onset of civil war. Most — if not all — of those that did take place were probably discussed at court among magnates — Staffords, Courtenays, Beauforts, Talbots, Berkeleys, Butlers, Greys and Percies — who were loyal to the house of Lancaster and prominent at King Henry's court.

[history-of-fashion]

1783 Ralph Earl - Marianne Drake

(Private collection)

[une-sanz-pluis]

Henry IV took the opportunity given by the defeat of the Percies to amend the form of indentures with his wardens. Neville [earl of Westmoreland] was retained to raise a force of fifty men-at-arms and 100 archers; John [of Lancaster, the king's son] was to have twice this number. The wardens were to be paid the usual wages for these soldiers. Thus the principle of payment in gross was dropped, but the practice of retaining a warden in time of truce was continued; in the event of war, the wardens were to double their forces. The tendency to grant long terms of office remained: the indentures sealed by John and Neville in 1403 retained them for seven years, and in 1408 they were re-engaged for a further six years. These later indentures were set aside on 25 January 1411. The royal council was now under the influence of Henry, prince of Wales; it was active in preparing measures to reform the administration and reduce expenditure. One of its measures was to restore the practice of paying the wardens in gross, without specifying the number of forces they were to engage. The rates introduced were £5,000 a year in wartime and £2,500 in peace or truce, for the east march, and half these amounts for the west. As John should have been receiving nearly £4,000 a year for his force of 100 men-at-arms and 200 archers, the new scales made a considerable saving for the exchequer; they were a great deal lower than the enormous sums which the Percies had been drawing. The 1411 scales for the east march remained unchanged for fifty years, while they were not reduced for the west march until 1436. Neville and John were allowed the same term of office as had been agreed in their indentures of 1408. Henry V preferred shorter terms: he allowed his wardens either two or three years.

R. L. Storey, "The Wardens of the Marches of England towards Scotland, 1377–1489," The English Historical Review, vol. 72, no. 285 (1957)

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil painting, 1798, American.

Portraying Chloe Burrall Smith in a green dress, with her children.

Painted by Ralph Earl.

Met Museum.

[art-portraits]

Martha Tennent Rogers (Mrs. David Rogers) and her Son, Probably Samuel Henry Rogers

Artist: Ralph Earl (American, 1751-1801)

Date: 1788

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Martha Tennent (Mrs David Rogers) and Son

Martha Tennent (1751-1813) was the daughter of Rev. Charles & Martha Tennent of Buckingham, Maryland. She married David Rogers in 1772. Their 12 children were baptized in Greenfield Hill, where her brother William served for a time as minister. In the portrait she wears a brown dress with long sleeves, & over her shoulders is a large white muslin kerchief. A few curls of her dark brown hair show modestly beneath her white cap, which is tied with a blue bow. According to costume historian Aileen Ribeiro, the indoor cap was "de rigueur in England & America for middle-class married women, particularly in households with strong Protestant beliefs." Mrs. Rogers is seated in a red upholstered armchair… The extended arms of the chair seem to have been exaggerated for effect. As art historian Elizabeth Kornhauser has noted, the chair is "a variation on the form seen in Earl's English & New York portraits... more suited to a gentleman's study or library."

Behind & to the right of Mrs. Rogers appear a meadow & trees. On her lap she holds a child wearing a pink frock with a large blue sash. The child's ash-blond hair is cut with straight bangs & shoulder-length curls. This child is probably Samuel Henry Rogers, who was born on 25 May 1786, 2 years before the portrait was painted. Like his 2 older brothers named Samuel, born in 1782 & 1784, he did not survive childhood. Another son born in 1796 was also named Samuel Henry. Boys often wore the same loose-fitting frock as girls, until they were 3 or 4 years old. The lack of "aprons and white indoor caps" was a subtle feature that distinguished them from girls. The Rogers had 2 daughters, Martha & Susan or Susanna, born in 1774 & 1778, respectively. Jacobus lists a 3rd daughter, Julia Ann, born in 1794; plus a boy named "Julian." Martha Tennent's husband Dr David Rogers (1748-1829) was trained as a doctor by his father, Dr. Uriah Rogers of Norwalk, & was licensed to practice medicine in New York City. He probably met the artist Ralph Earl through Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell, with whom Rogers had served as an army surgeon in Connecticut during the Revolution. Later, in 1792, Rogers & Cogswell were founders of the Connecticut Medical Society.

[gori-thegorilla]

How the L.A. Noire dudes would draw themselves

Cole Phelps;

Ralph Dunn;

Stefan Bekowsky;

Rusty Galloway;

Roy Earle;

Herschel Biggs; (same as Finnbar)

Jack Kelso;