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Description: Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth with an unknown female attendant

TitleLouise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth with an unknown female attendant

Creator nameMignard, Pierre, I

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1682

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationNational Portrait Gallery, London

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05102/Louise-de-Kroualle-Duchess-of-Portsmouth-with-an-unknown-female-attendant

Accession numberNPG 497

SubjectsNobility in artPortrait painting, FrenchWomen--PortraitsHousehold employees in artChildren, Black, in art

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Introduction: Neptune Thurston’s Portraits

Jennifer Van Horn

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

~“Neptune was my first master. The first idea I ever had of painting the human features I received from...

Author

Jennifer Van Horn

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-26

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00354.1

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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, AmericanSlavery--United StatesAfrican American artistsArtists, BlackTransatlantic slave trade

6. Painting the Graces

Mark Hallett

Reynolds: Portraiture in Action

~~In 1764, Anna, Countess Temple, long established as the mistress of the great country house at Stowe in Buckinghamshire, published a small book of poems.Poems by Anna...

Author

Mark Hallett

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.193-217

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00296.7

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Chapter subject tags:Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Portrait painting, British--18th centuryAristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th century

6. “This deepe and perfect glosse of Blacknesse”: Colour, Colonialism, and The Paston Treasure’s Period Eye

Esther Chadwick

The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World

The Paston Treasure can be described as an accumulation of things presented for the eyes in a visual mode that was central to the intertwined cultures of wonder and scientific inquiry in seventeenth-century Europe.See Daston and Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1998, esp. 255–301; and Alpers,...

Author

Esther Chadwick

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.102-109

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00266.007

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Chapter subject tags:Master of the Paston Treasure, active approximately 1660-approximately 1670. Paston treasureAfricans in artImperialismHuman skin color

3. Court and City: Fantasies of Domination

David Bindman and Helen Weston

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

Like other forms of luxury associated with court life and display, ownership of black pages and body servants became increasingly available...

Author

David Bindman and Helen Weston

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.125-170

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00142.009

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, British--18th centuryReynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Black people in art--Britain--18th centuryBlack people in art--France--18th centuryPainting, French--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryPortrait painting, French--18th century

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