72 Jonathan Richardson (attrib.)

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Description: Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish dress

TitlePortrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish dress

Creator nameRichardson, Jonathan, the younger

Creator name (description)Attributed to Jonathan Richardson

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1725

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions239 x 144.8 cm

LocationSandon Hall, Stafford, United Kingdom

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPortrait painting, BritishChildren, Black, in artUpper class womenCourts and courtiers in artTurks in artOttoman influences in art

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V. Going Turkish in Eighteenth-Century London: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Portraits

Marcia Pointon

Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England

~The full-length portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu attributed to Jonathan Richardson shows her regally attired in Turkish style, accompanied by a black servant, and with a...

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Marcia Pointon

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.141-157

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00062.010

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Chapter subject tags:England--Social life and customs--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryMontagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762Clothing and dress--Ottoman influencesArt and society--Britain--History--18th centurySlavery in art--Britain--18th century

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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition, Part 3: The Eighteenth Century

This chapter is concerned with the way in which courtly fantasies involving blacks and Africa were absorbed and adapted by the increasingly self-confident urban populations emerging in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in London and Paris in particular. If the court remained the dominant cultural force in Italy, in Germany (whether Catholic or Protestant principalities), and in...

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David Bindman and Bruce Boucher and Helen Weston

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.77-123

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00142.008

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Chapter subject tags:Aristocracy (Social class) in artBlack people in art--18th centurySlavery--Europe--18th centuryTurkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918Painting, French--Ottoman influencesPainting, French--18th centuryWatteau, Antoine, 1684-1721Lancret, Nicolas, 1690-1743Painting, Italian--18th centuryTiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815History painting, American--18th century

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