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Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, 1778. Painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761–1804) and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray (1760–1825). The 1778 painting, once thought to be by Johann Zoffany, [6] is now attributed to David Martin. [7]
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]
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 ...
Belle (2013) – British historical drama film inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle beside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House [20] Betty & Coretta (2013) – drama television film based on the widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their ...
Belle ' s original score is composed by Rachel Portman who recalled on not sentimentally overdoing with the film's music. [1] Her involvement was confirmed in May 2013, [2] and the recording of the film's music being held at the Angel Recording Studios in London, and the Smecky Music Studios in Prague, with an 88-piece orchestra from the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra members performing. [3]
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.
Belle was very different from the rest of her Disney Princess forbearers when the animated classic graced movie screens in 1991. A bookish and independent young woman from a rural village, Belle ...
Her second feature film, Belle (2013), is a historical romance. [20] The film is based on Dido Elizabeth Belle, and depicts an illegitimate mixed-race daughter of an enslaved African woman and a Royal Navy captain. He placed the girl into the care of his uncle (and Belle's great-uncle) Lord Mansfield and his wife in late 18th-century London. [21]