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| Jean-Baptiste Weyler (France) Oval Box with Miniature Portrait 1781-82 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Pietro Tenerani (Italy) Bust-portrait of Tatyana Stroganova 1853 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady
Mrs. Anne Killigrew
Excellent in the Two Sister-Arts of Poesie and Painting
An Ode
Mrs. Anne Killigrew
Excellent in the Two Sister-Arts of Poesie and Painting
An Ode
O Gracious God! How far have we
Prophan'd thy Heav'nly Gift of Poesy!
Made prostitute and profligate the Muse,
Debas'd to each obscene and impious use,
Whose harmony was first ordain'd Above,
For Tongues of Angels and for Hymns of Love!
Oh wretched We! why were we hurry'd down
This lubrique and adult'rate age,
(Nay, added fat Pollutions of our own)
T' increase the steaming Ordures of the Stage?
What can we say t' excuse our Second Fall?
Let this thy Vestal, Heav'n, atone for all:
Her Arethusian Stream remains unsoil'd,
Unmixt with Forreign Filth and undefil'd,
Her Wit was more than Man, her Innocence a Child.
– excerpted from an extensive verse tribute to the virtues of the deceased Mrs. Killigrew by John Dryden, a production characterized by Samuel Johnson in 1779 as "undoubtedly the noblest ode that our language has ever produced"
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| Benjamin West (England) Portrait of George Prince of Wales and Frederick Duke of York 1778 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Johann Heinrich Schmidt (Germany) Portrait of Lowis of Menar 1784 pastel on vellum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Louis François Roubiliac (France) Portrait-bust of Richard Bentley, FRS 1756 plaster British Museum |
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| Johann Bardou (Germany) Portrait of Princess Nadezhda Golitsyn 1788 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Johann Bardou (Germany) Portrait of an elderly lady 1785 pastel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| David Le Marchand (France) Portrait-relief of an unknown man ca. 1700-1720 ivory British Museum |
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| Jean-Louis Voille (France) Portrait of a girl in a hat 1781-82 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Ivan Petrovich Argunov (Russia) Portrait of a woman in a blue dress 1760 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| George Romney (England) Portrait of Harriet Greer ca. 1785-90 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-Marc Nattier (France) Portrait of Pierre-Victoire, Baron de Besenval before 1766 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pietro Tenerani (Italy) Bust-portrait of Marina Gurjeva 1835 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Lucas Conrad Pfanzelt (Germany) Portrait of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli 1750s oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pietro Rotari (Italy) Portrait of Countess Vorontsova ca. 1756-62 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |