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Patrons of Watier's, The Dandy Club, Circa 1818. Watier's Club was a gentlemen's Club established in 1807 and disbanded in 1819. It was located at 81 Piccadilly on the corner of Bolton Street in west London. Prior to its occupation as a gaming hall and restaurant, it was a private residence, and the headquarters of a small singing club.
Scrope Berdmore Davies (1782–1852), often given incorrectly as Scrope Beardmore Davies, was an English dandy of the Regency period. [1] He is known as a friend of Lord Byron, the dedicatee of Byron's poem Parisina. [2] He is the subject of a 1981 biography.
Regency dance is the term for historical dances of the period ranging roughly from 1790 to 1825. Some feel that the popular use of the term "Regency dance" is not technically correct, as the actual English Regency (the future George IV ruling on behalf of mad King George III) lasted only from 1811 until 1820.
George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) [1] was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion.At one time, he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France.
Cruikshank's 1825 caricature shows Ball Hughes' wife holding a golden ball.. A drawing of Hughes by Alfred d'Orsay is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. d'Orsay and Hughes were acquainted; Hughes' sister Catherine married Thomas Jenkins, an early patron of the Countess of Blessington, d'Orsay's friend and patroness, [25] and Hughes attended d'Orsay's funeral. [26]
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By reversing concepts of the Victorian master-servant relationship, by rewriting stereotypings of the Victorian dandy to include Black masculinities, and by positioning his dandy figure as a noble man who is the leader of his social circle, Shonibare uses neo-Victorianism as a genre to interrogate and counter normative historical narratives and ...
Author Horace Walpole wrote to a friend in 1764 of "the Macaroni Club , which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses". [8] The expression was particularly used to characterize " fops " who dressed in high fashion with tall, powdered wigs with a chapeau-bras on top that could only be removed on the ...