Self Portrait, Marie-Gabriel Capet

Margaret Kemble Gage

John Singleton Copley

ALL DA LADIES LOVE CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGE

and at least 10% of the gentlemen.

Detail: Dido Elizabeth Belle

beyondthegoblincity:

Woman with star shawl by Christian Ahrbeck, 1799

fripperiesandfobs:

Portrait of Mrs. Vere

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland

1780’s

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Mademoiselle Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Mademoiselle Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788), 1785
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (French, 1749–1803)

a-l-ancien-regime:

Allan Ramsay, 1713 - 1784

Portrait of an unknown young man. 

Oil on canvas

The Victoria and Albert Museum

loquaciousconnoisseur:

Guillaume Voiriot

Self-Portrait (1749)

(Source: onlyartists, via jaded-mandarin)

vega-ofthe-lyre:

Mme. Lavoisier learned to draw from Jacques-Louis David. His expensively commissioned portrait of the couple tells us of their relationship. The two are physically close, her arm rests on his shoulder. But there is a distance between them. To me there is also a certain tension in the leaning posture of Mme. Lavoisier—am I imagining that she is pressing in, and would like to enter Lavoisier’s realm of instruments in the right-hand part of the picture? Lavoisier looks at his wife—she looks out at us, at the world.

Roald Hoffman in American Scientist 90.1 (2002)

I have always loved this portrait, so many feelings. Obviously, the way he’s looking up at her first of all, but also her entire stance- hand on shoulder and knuckles on the table strikes me as so, so typical of a male colleague, I love it. When a portrait is done of two male scientists, or of a roomful of male artists at an academy, this is how they stand. I <3 the Lavoisiers, favorite tragic historical couple.

It’s even more exciting when you look at depictions of other male/female teams in art… The best Caroline Herschel ever got was a sketch of herself bringing dear brother William a sustaining cup of tea. Bloody typical.

(via auntiehornblower)

my18thcenturysource:

“Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, Grenadier Guards” by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782.

myhistoricalportraitboyfriend:

Auguste Vestris by Thomas Gainsborough

ordinarysolitude:

The Honourable Mrs. Graham by Thomas Gainsborough.

I saw this at the National Gallery of Scotland a few years ago. This doesn’t do it justice. 

William Beckford, Sir Joshua Reynolds