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Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]
Antea (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman) is a painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Parmigianino. The painting is in the collection of the Museum of Capodimonte in Naples . History
Collier Schorr (born 1963), portraits of young men and women; Sarah Choate Sears (1858–1935), portraits and still lifes from the 1890s; Cindy Sherman (born 1954), conceptual portraits, staged photographs of herself, Untitled #96 sold for $3.89 million in 2011 [5] Editta Sherman (1912–2013), celebrity photographer
a portrait of the elder son Edward (1902), aged about 29, sketch painted in Paris, shortly before his early death that year, before a completed portrait was finished a portrait of the fourth surviving daughter Essie with her two youngest siblings, fourth son Ferdinand and sixth surviving daughter Ruby (1902), aged about 22, 14 and 13 respectively
Emma Soyer, Portrait of Alexis Soyer, 1841 (private collection, on loan to the Reform Club) Elizabeth Emma Jones was born in London in 1813, and was instructed in French, Italian, and music. At a very early age she became a pupil of the Belgian painter François Simonau (1783–1859), who in 1820 married her mother, Mrs. Jones.
1900 Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
During the 1600s, a shift in philosophical and social attitudes toward children and the notion of "childhood" began in Europe. [7] Adults increasingly saw children as separate beings, innocent and in need of protection and training by the adults around them.