Saturday, August 9, 2025

Paradigms (Western)

Gillis Neyts
Seated Woman with Lute
before 1687
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum


Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Lady with a Dog
ca. 1690-1700
oil on canvas
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

John Faber the Elder
Portrait of Queen Mary II
1695
ink on vellum
British Museum

Nicolaes Verkolje
Portrait of Elisabeth van Riebeeck
ca. 1720
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Balthasar Setletzky after Antoine Watteau
Head of a Young Woman
ca. 1730
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

William Hogarth
Portrait of Catherine Edwards née Vaslet
(member of Huguenot family settled in London)
1739
oil on canvas
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Pierre Parrocel
Country Woman
before 1739
etching
British Museum

Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Miss Draycott, later Lady Pomfret
ca. 1750-60
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

François-Hubert Drouais
Girl with Basket of Fruit
ca. 1750-60
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

George Romney
Portrait of Millicent Watson
ca. 1755-60
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Paolo Fidanza after Scipione Pulzone
Portrait of a Lady of the Cenci Family
ca. 1757-64
etching
British Museum

Marie-Françoise Saint-Aubin
Head of a Woman
before 1759
drawing
British Museum

John Hamilton Mortimer
Study of Seated Woman
ca. 1760-70
drawing
British Museum

Nathaniel Hone the Elder
Portrait of the famous courtesan Kitty Fisher
1763-64
oil on canvas
private collection

Benjamin West
Portrait of Mary Hopkinson
ca. 1764
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

John Downman
Mrs Wright, the famous Wax Woman
1777
drawing
British Museum

Anonymous Printmaker after Pieter Lastman 
Habiti delle Gentildonne Venetiano
ca. 1780
etching
British Museum

    Cold is Cadwallo's tongue
    That hushed the stormy main,
Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed;
    Mountains, ye mourn in vain
    Modred, whose magic song
Made high Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topt head.
    On dreary Arvon's shore they lie
Smeared with gore and ghastly pale,
Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail,
    The famished eagle screams, and passes by.
Dear lost companions of my tuneful art,
    Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes,
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart,
    Ye died amidst your dying country's cries 

No more I weep; they do not sleep;    
    On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,
I see them sit; they linger yet,
    Avengers of their native land.
With me in dreadful harmony they join,
And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line. 

– Thomas Gray, from The Bard (1757)