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Belle's father Sir John Lindsay. Dido Elizabeth Belle was born into slavery in 1761 [3] in the British West Indies to an enslaved African woman known as Maria Belle. (Her name was spelled as Maria Bell in Dido's baptism record.) [4] Her father was 24-year-old Sir John Lindsay, a member of the Lindsay of Evelix branch of the Clan Lindsay, who was a career naval officer and then captain of the ...
It features a double portrait of the cousins Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray. [1] [2] Dido was the great niece of Lord Chief Justice Lord Mansfield who made notable rulings limiting the practice of slavery and the slave trade, notably Somersett's Case and the Zong trial. The 2013 film Belle drew inspiration from the painting. [3]
Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood, London As well as producing his own paintings, Martin copied them himself in highly-praised mezzotints , such as those of Lady Frances Manners (1772), impressions of which may be seen in the British Museum , under catalogue entries 1887 0406 87 and 1887 0406 142.
Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay (1761-1804) Items portrayed in this file depicts. inception. 1778. media type. image/png. File history.
Sagay wrote the 2013 British drama Belle after visiting Scone Palace, where she saw a unique portraiture of two women, Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray. [4] This painting, and the women within, acted as the inspiration for her screenplay. [5] The film tells the Story of Belle, the daughter of an enslaved African ...
The first painting is a double portrait depicting Dido Belle, a former slave who was brought up as a member of the aristocratic Murray family (Earls of Mansfield), and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray.
The artist’s royal works have since included a portrait marking William becoming a father, a live painting of the state funeral of the late Queen, and Charles’s coronation procession.
The film is loosely inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle beside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House, which was commissioned by their great-uncle, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, then Lord Chief Justice of England.