Female portraits Gallery

Jervas - Elizabeth and Henrietta Finch J030048

KENWOOD HOUSE, London: The Iveagh Bequest. Lady Elizabeth and Lady Henrietta Finch, ca. 1730-31 by Charles Jervas. Oil on canvas 72 x 56 in. (183 x 142 cm). 88029120

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Georgian, Painting

Henrietta-Maria and dwarf, Sir Jeffrey Hudson J900214

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Richmond-upon-Thames, Greater London. "Queen Henrietta Maria and the Dwarf Sir Jeffrey Hudson" after Sir Anthony VAN DYCK (1599-1641). Henrietta-Maria (1609-69) was daughter of Henri IV of France and wife of Charles I of England. Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619-82) is recorded to have been only 18 or 19 inches (46cm) tall at the age of 30, unusually with no hint of disproportion or distorted physiognomy. He is later reported to have doubled his height. In 1626 he was served in a pie to the royal couple and soon afterwards entered the service of the queen. After a life of adventures, including military service, a duel, exile, slavery, and imprisonment as a Catholic, his death is unrecorded

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Hoppner - Mrs Jordan as Viola in Twelfth Night J950225

KENWOOD HOUSE, THE IVEAGH BEQUEST, London. " Mrs Jordan as Viola in Twelfth Night " by John Hoppner (1758-1810). The comic actress, Dorothy Bland, known as Mrs Jordan, played the part of Viola in 1785-1786

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Georgian, Paintings