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#NationalPortraitGallery

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Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, par John Opie

Écrvaine fondatrice du féminisme anglais, autrice de "vindication of the Rights of Woman".

Elle est morte en donnant naissance à sa fille, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (l'autrice d'un roman qui a connu un petit succès).

Femme en buste, vêtement blanc, cheveux roux, casquette (?) sur la tête, elle regarde sur le côté avec un air déterminé.
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Chandos portrait ✧

The Chandos portrait is the most famous of the portraits that are believed to depict William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616). Painted between 1600 and 1610, it may have served as the basis for the engraved portrait of Shakespeare used in his First Folio in 1623. John Taylor (c. 1580–1653) is thought by several scholars to hav...

#NationalPortraitGallery #Folio #London #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandos_

Chandos portrait
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Douglas E. Welch

William Bache's Silhouettes Album via The National Portrait Gallery [Shared]

William Bache (1771–1845) emigrated from England to Philadelphia in May 1793 with no apparent training as an artist. Yet from 1803 to 1812, he pursued a prolific and successful career as an itinerant maker of silhouette portraits, traveling up and down the eastern seaboard, from Maine to Virginia, and further south to Louisiana and Cuba. Working sporadically over that nine-year period, he produced thousands of shaded profiles with the aid of a patented physiognotrace, a mechanical device used to trace the outline of a person’s face. Cheap and quick to make, silhouettes captured the likenesses of a broad cross-section of society, including those who could afford no other form of portrait.

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The image shows an open book with two pages filled with black silhouettes of human profiles. The silhouettes are arranged in rows and columns, with each profile numbered. The left page contains 18 silhouettes, while the right page has 24. The silhouettes depict a variety of hairstyles and headwear, suggesting different individuals from a past era. The profiles are monochromatic, with the black silhouettes standing out against the aged, yellowed paper background. On the left page, there is a label with the name "John Dixey" and a highlighted silhouette, indicating a specific individual. The silhouettes are detailed, capturing the contours of the faces and hairstyles, providing a glimpse into the fashion and style of the time. The overall appearance of the book suggests it is an old collection, possibly from the 18th or 19th century, used for recording profiles of individuals. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
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Jonathan Emmesedi

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Tonight's randomly chosen picture from London's National Portrait Gallery, but do read part two of the thread:

NPG 1677; Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax - Portrait Extended - National Portrait Gallery

npg.org.uk/collections/search/

"Halifax is shown with the sash and star of the Bath...Healthy complexion, greyish eyes, mainly grey hair and whiskers. Dressed in a black necktie, white shirt, white waistcoat with a scarlet sash, black coat, silver star, grey trousers. Seated in a gilt and red-covered armchair, holding a brown leather volume. Brown background colour."
#History#UKHistory#IrishHistory
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Jonathan Emmesedi

Joseph Addison -- Sir Godfrey Kneller --
oil on canvas, circa 1712

National Portrait Gallery, London.

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I used a random number generator to select this portrait. I was mostly* pleasantly surprised by the result, not only because I have an institutional connection with Addison, but also on account of my seeing the portrait strengthening my resolve to read more of Addison and Steele's essays.

* I write "mostly" because I am no lover of the Whig politics in which Addison was steeped.

The painting is one of the set of 43 Kit-cat Club portraits.

>>These portraits are of a group of influential men pledged to uphold the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the Protestant succession. Founded by Somers, the Lord Chancellor and the publisher Tonson, the club began meeting in Christopher Cat's tavern near Temple Bar, and took its name from his mutton pies known as Kit-cats. Members included Whig MPs and landowners as well as writers.<<

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Half length portrait of Joseph Addison. He wears a blue coat over a white shirt and wig which extends to his shoulders.
#Art#Portrait#BritishArt
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✧ W. E. B. Du Bois ✧

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist. The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. He rose to national prominence as the leader of the...

#AtlantaUniversity #NiagaraMovement #NationalPortraitGallery #BlackReconstruction #Washington #Wikipedia
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