It's so handy, being able to dump a huge thing of pictures here. Portrait of a Young Woman, James Nixon, 1780-1785 Atelier of a Painter, Marie Victoire Lemoine, ca. 1787? Mrs. Bryan Cooke, George Romney, 1787-1791 Comtesse de la Châtre, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1789 Lady Sophia Boyle, Anne Foldsone Mee, ca. 1790 Seated … Continue reading Painting Sources
Category: 19th century
Museu do Traje, Part I (Nineteenth Century)
Last summer, I traveled to Portugal with my family. One of the last things that we did was to go to the Museu do Traje - the National Fashion Museum. I took pictures of pretty much everything, but I've never shared them, so: They start off with a Regency/Empire/Neoclassical room. I'm not entirely sure what … Continue reading Museu do Traje, Part I (Nineteenth Century)
Candace Wheeler: the Mother of American Interior Design
Candace Thurber Wheeler was born in 1827 in rural Delhi, New York. She and her siblings grew up as "not only traditional, but actual Puritans, repeating in 1828 the lives of our pioneer New England forefathers a hundred years before" – Abner and Lucy Thurber were strictly religious, raising their children according to Biblical precepts … Continue reading Candace Wheeler: the Mother of American Interior Design
Corsets 1790-1810
Throughout the eighteenth century, the female body was compressed by whalebone corsets into conical shapes, but within the next few decades, as the silhouette became more high-waisted, corsetry changed drastically. The extant corsets of the early nineteenth century are slim columns of linen, embellished with quilting, cording, and embroidery. This change is intriguing: obviously, it … Continue reading Corsets 1790-1810
Mimic of Modes 