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Late 14th/early 15th century Western Europe
Portrait of Olive Craster, Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1762, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings
portrait of a young woman wearing a choker of large pearls, a blue dress with bows on the bodice and white lace netting and ribbons over the shoulders, and white lace and tiny pink and yellow flowers in her hair, with a brown squirrel wearing a collar with a silver chain attached, perched on her PR hand; painted oval around image, with grey ground Olive Craster, an heiress from a distinguished family, and husband George embarked on an expensive and extensive period of travel across France and Italy shortly after their marriage, throughout which Olive kept meticulous notes of her purchases, including clothes and other fashionable accessories. As a testament to female expression and experience in the eighteenth century, Dance’s portrait is a rare, almost singular survival. Mia’s collection is also weak in British 18th century portraiture, and this picture is a very welcome enhancement. Size: 28 ½ × 23 11/16 in. (72.39 × 60.17 cm) (sight) 35 ½ × 30 5/8 × 2 ½ in. (90.17 × 77.79 × 6.35 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Oil on canvas
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1786 Johann Ernst Heinsius - Marie-Louise-Thérèse-Victoire of France (Madame Victoire)
(Palace of Versailles)
On the Ice Peterson’s magazine December 1875
Victorian Witch.
George Romney. Detail from Charlotte, Mrs. Thomas Raikes, 1787.
Fashion Plate from 1865, Victoria Magazine
Princess Thyra, Duchess of Cumberland ( sitting) with daughters, Olga ( middle) and Alexandra. Early 1900s
‘The Court Dress of the Year 1795’; art by Ann Frankland Lewis, England. [credit: LACMA Collections]
Madame de Saint-Morys, 1776, by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802)
1626-1627 Daniel Mytens - Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia
(Royal Collection Trust)
Fashion Plate ca.1880-1889
1760s Giuseppe Duprà or Nicola Duprà - Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia
(Palace of Venaria)