Research Catalog

Title

Painted ladies : women at the court of Charles II / Catherine MacLeod and Julia Marciari Alexander ; with essays by Kevin Sharpe, Diana Dethloff and Sonya Wynne.

Author

MacLeod, Catharine

Publication

London : National Portrait Gallery, in association with Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alexander, Julia Marciari, 1967-
• National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
• Yale Center for British Art

Description

255 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

This text provides an exploration and reconsideration of Restoration portraiture, considering some of the most beautiful paintings of the period, portraits of women of prominence and influence within the court of Charles II, from royal brides and daughters to mistresses and actresses.

Subject

• Karl II. England, König 1630-1685
• Karl England, König, II
• 1600-1699
• Portraits, British > 17th century > Exhibitions
• Women > Great Britain > Portraits > Exhibitions
• Women > Great Britain > Biography > Exhibitions
• Women in art > Exhibitions
• Great Britain > Court and courtiers > Portraits > Exhibitions
• Great Britain > History > Charles II, 1660-1685 > Exhibitions
• Great Britain > Court and courtiers > History > 17th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Published to accompany the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Oct. 11. 2001-Jan. 6, 2002 and at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., Jan. 25-March 17, 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Charles Saumarez Smith -- Curatorial preface / Catharine MacLeod and Julia Marciari Alexander -- Restoration and reconstitution : politics, society and culture in the England of Charles II / Kevin Sharpe -- Portraiture and concepts of beauty in Restoration painting / Diana Dethloff -- 'The brightest glories of the British sphere' : women at the Court of Charles II / Sonya Wynne -- 'Good, but not like' : Peter Lely, portrait practice and the creation of a court look / Catharine MacLeod -- Beauties, bawds and bravura : the critical history of Restoration portraits of women / Julia Marciari Alexander -- Catalogue. Women at court : the early years -- Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland -- Louise de Křoualle, Duchess of Portsmouth -- Women at court : the later years -- Representations and reputations.

ISBN

1855143216

OCLC

• 48487839
• SCSB-12839690

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library