#three-quarter length

[portrait-paintings]

James Hogg, 1770 - 1835. Poet; 'The Ettrick Shepherd'

Artist: Sir John Watson Gordon (Scottish, 1788 - 1864)

Date: 1830

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

Over his gentlemen's clothes, Hogg has wrapped a shepherd's plaid and he holds a crook in his left hand. Hogg was born on a farm and worked as a shepherd until he established himself as successful writer. He had little formal education and shrewdly promoted himself as 'nature's genius'. He published poetry and prose, his most remarkable work probably being ' The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, a terrifying novel which still influences contemporary Scottish writers.

[gogmstuff]

1908 (September) Les Modes - Robe d'interieur par Paquin - photo by Reutlinger. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1386X2081.

[20thcenturypaintings]

Girl in White

Artist: Ruth Pratt Bobbs (American, 1884–1973)

Date: c. 1905-1907

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Description

The elegant sitter wears a fashionable white cape and black plumed hat selected from the artist’s own wardrobe. Her slender frame is accentuated by the verticality of the canvas and the bamboo-patterned gold screen in the background.

Girl in White depicts Jesseca Penn, a well-known model, actress, and dancer from Des Moines, Iowa. Penn posed for numerous artists, including Robert Henri and Arthur B. Davies.

Bobbs cultivated her artistic skills in Paris, New York, and Indianapolis. She may have executed Girl in White during her studies with Henri at the New York School of Art (formerly the Chase School) from 1905 until 1907.

[artemlegere]

Miranda - The Tempest

Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917)

Date: 1916

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection

Description

In 1916 Waterhouse submitted three works to the Royal Academy: the group composition A Tale from the Decameron along with two single figure works "I am Half Sick of Shadows," said the Lady of Shalott and Miranda-The Tempest. As the titles suggest, Waterhouse had abandoned classical myths as subjects in favor of medieval and Renaissance narratives, often centering on a woman experiencing a revelation.

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most romantic plays, written late in his career, circa 1611; its original performance a year later coincided with the wedding of Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of England's James I to Frederick, the Elector Palatine, later King of Bohemia.

As with many of Waterhouse's single-figure pictures of women, Miranda is a legendary, mystical woman withdrawn from the world, her future in peril. Miranda, her expression hidden from the viewer in three quarter profile, becomes a decorative object of dangerous beauty, her body surrounded by the violent bruised blue waves, the broken bits of Ferdinand's ship's mast suggesting the destructive, transformative power of love.

[galleryofart]

Reverie

Artist: Thomas Benjamin Kennington (English, 1856–1916)

Date: 1875

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of a Lady (1750) by Franz van der Mijn (Flemish, 1719–1783), oil on canvas, 92.2 x 72.3 cm, Private Collection

[tevos]

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[empirearchives]

Book detail from the Portrait of Mme. Delahaye, by Antoine Vestier, c. 1800s

[kommabortsig]

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[mythologypaintings]

Sybil

Artist: after Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728-1779)

Date: 1761-1799

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: National Trust, United Kingdom

Description

Oil painting on canvas, A Sibyl, after Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728 – Rome 1779), after original of 1761. A three-quarter-length female in Renaissance rustic dress of brown cloak and white linen dress beneath, with a turban headdress turns to her right to look at the viewer, leaning her head on her right hand, and her left is in her lap holding an open book. Guercino painted many Sibyls in this three-quarter-length format, but none is the model for this, and all have their identities clearly indicated by inscriptions. Domenichino and Reni also painted Sibyls, but only as half-lengths. This more generalised image is eighteenth century in feeling; its closest affinity lies with Gavin Hamilton's Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, as a Sibyl, in a private collection, to which it might be the pendant, did that picture not already have one, of Emma Hart as Hebe; but the handling is blander than Hamilton's, nor can the dark-haired model here have been Emma. Benjamin West also copied the original in 1762.

[portrait-paintings]

Dame Nellie Melba

Artist: John Longstaff (Australian, 1861-1941)

Date: 1923

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Dame Nellie Melba

Dame Nellie Melba GBE (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 19 May 1861 – 23 February 1931) was an Australian operatic lyric coloratura soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century, and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.

[royalty-nobility]

Muhammad Ali Pasha Viceroy of Egypt

Artist: Auguste Couder (French, 1789–1873)

Date: 1841

Medium: OIl on canvas

Collection: Museum of the History of France, Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was the Ottoman Albanian viceroy and governor who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece.

He was a military commander in an Albanian Ottoman force sent to recover Egypt from French occupation under Napoleon. Following Napoleon's withdrawal, Muhammad Ali rose to power through a series of political maneuvers, and in 1805 he was named Wāli (governor) of Egypt and gained the rank of Pasha.

As Wāli, Ali attempted to modernize Egypt by instituting dramatic reforms in the military, economic and cultural spheres. He also initiated a violent purge of the Mamluks, consolidating his rule and permanently ending the Mamluk hold over Egypt.

Militarily, Ali recaptured the Arabian territories for the sultan, and conquered Sudan of his own accord. His attempt at suppressing the Greek rebellion failed decisively, however, following an intervention by the European powers at Navarino. In 1831, Ali waged war against the sultan, capturing Syria, crossing into Anatolia and directly threatening Constantinople, but the European powers forced him to retreat. After a failed Ottoman invasion of Syria in 1839, he launched another invasion of the Ottoman Empire in 1840; he defeated the Ottomans again and opened the way towards a capture of Constantinople. Faced with another European intervention, he accepted a brokered peace in 1842 and withdrew from the Levant; in return, he and his descendants were granted hereditary rule over Egypt and Sudan. His dynasty would rule Egypt for over a century, until the revolution of 1952 when King Farouk was overthrown by the Free Officers Movement led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, establishing the Republic of Egypt.

[gogmstuff]

1909 (September) Les Modes - Robe de promenade par Laferrière - photo by Henri Manuel. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop & fixed mono-color tint 1481X2028.

[sluttyten]

After I eventually finish this Haechan fic (s2g I don’t know why it’s getting so long 😂) and after I finish the rest of unholy, I’m gonna force myself to keep to a word minimum and just write something short because I can’t keep doing these long fics 😭

[artemlegere]

Desdemona

Artist: Peter Frederick Rothermel (American, 1817-1895)

Date: c. 1866

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Desdemona

Desdemona s a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adulteress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.

[galleryofart]

The Birthday

Artist: William Holman Hunt (English, 1827-1910

Description: A Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Edith

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Description

The Birthday was the first painting by William Holman Hunt, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, to enter a public collection on the West Coast of the United States. It portrays Edith Waugh - Hunt’s second wife and the sister of his deceased first wife, Fanny - on her twenty-first birthday. With its vibrant coloring and tactile brushwork, The Birthday embodies the aesthetic forged by the Pre-Raphaelites against the grain of the more narrative approach then championed by official art institutions.