Lady Cunliffe by John Hoppner https://www.nga.gov/artworks/57457-lady-cunliffe
Associated Names Cunliffe, 3rd Bt., Foster, Sir Cunliffe, 4th Bt., Robert Henry, Gen
Associated Names Cunliffe, 3rd Bt., Foster, Sir Cunliffe, 4th Bt., Robert Henry, Gen
Palais 16032″ and „Gen. Kat. No 5299.“ The latter corresponds to inv. no.
Inscriptions around circumference: ALFON[sus] AVOL[us] MAR[chio] GVAS[ti] CAP[itaneus] GEN
Maryland, The Maryland Institute and Municipal Art Society, Baltimore, 1921, no. 9, as Gen
The pairing of unequal couples has a literary history dating back to antiquity when Plautus, a Roman comic poet from the 3rd–century BC, cautioned elderly men against courting younger ladies. By the late–15th and early–16th centuries, the coupling of old men with young women or old women with young men had become popular themes in northern European art and literature.
Quinten, wesende een out man met honge vrouwe ende eene sot, in ebbenhoute lyste, gen
Margaritone d’Arezzo was the first artist from Arezzo whose name we know and whose work survives. He was active during the middle decades of the 13th century.
Associated Names Fox-Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane, Lt-Gen.
Davis and Gen. Beauregard.
After the Reformation had brought social and political upheaval to Germany, creating an unfavorable climate for artists, Holbein moved to England in 1526. He first painted for Sir Thomas More’s circle of high servants of the crown and then became painter to the King himself, Henry VIII.
Colnaghi & Co., London), by 1925; (M.
Georges de Bellio [1828-1894], Paris; probably by inheritance to M et Mme [she, née
Peoria, 1986: 253, fig. 14.10. 1989 d’Hulst, Roger A., and M. Vandenven.