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Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...
Pages in category "18th-century paintings" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... Vase of Flowers (van Huysum) Virgin and Child Enthroned ...
Van Huysum's work determined the "main trends in flower paintings for sixty to eighty years after his death." [14]Fruit and flower artists whose work is described as inspired by or analogous to that of Jan van Huysum: Jacob van Huysum (his brother), Justus van Huysum (his father), Pieter Faes, Wybrand Hendriks, Paul Theodore van Brussel, Jacobus Linthorst, Jan van Os, George Jacob Jan van Os ...
The Boston cherubs mostly date from the mid-18th century to around 1810 and have direct lineage to earlier funerary art, often showing a living human arched by wings. The John Stevens Shop of Newport began using Cherub effigies as early as 1705, and carvers in the Merrimack Valley region were using soul/cherub designs starting in the 1680s.
Comprising 10 large-scale portraits in Sarah Ball’s signature airy colors, new exhibit “Titled” challenges gender conventions and celebrates exuberant self-expression.
Category:18th-century German women artists. Born in 17th-century: Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719) – daughter of the flower painter Johann Thomas Fischer, taught the Duchess Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and her daughters; Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) – entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.
In the late 18th century, Mary Way and her sister Betsey created portraits that included "dressed miniatures", with fabric, ribbons, and lace affixed to the images. [22] Miniaturist Amalia Küssner Coudert (1863–1932), from Terre Haute, Indiana , was known for her portraits of New York socialites and European royalty in the last decade of the ...
Fancy pictures are a sub-genre of genre paintings in 18th-century English art, featuring scenes of everyday life but with an imaginative or storytelling element, usually sentimental. The usage of the term varied, and there was often an overlap with the conversation piece , a type of group portrait showing the subjects engaged in some activity.