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Frances Stewart (née Howard), Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, Countess of Hertford (27 July 1578 – 8 October 1639) was the daughter of a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune, she rose to be the only duchess at the court of James I of England .
It seems probable that this was the portrait Pepys saw, though it is not explained why Pepys refers to the unmarried Frances Stewart as ‘Mrs’. It was not unknown at this time for fashionable women to dress in masculine style riding habits, and Frances Stewart is depicted in such an outfit in a miniature by Samuel Cooper (RCIN 420102).
4 de abr. de 2024 · The daughter of Walter Stuart (or Stewart), a physician in the household of Queen Henrietta Maria when in exile after the death of her husband, Charles I, in 1649, Frances Stuart was brought up in France and was sent to England in 1663 to become maid of honour to Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II.
This picture forms one of the ‘Windsor Beauties’ series, a set of eleven portraits of celebrated women at the Restoration court painted by Sir Peter Lely. The series was apparently commissioned or at least assembled by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, probably around 1662-5. Pepys recorded on 21 August 1668 that he ‘did first see the Duke of York’s room of pictures of some Maids of Honour ...
8 de jul. de 2023 · Frances Stewart, the mistress of King Charles II, was born on 8 July 1647 in Paris. Stewart was acclaimed as one of the great beauties of the Restoration court and known as 'la belle Stuart'. She was reputedly the mistress of King Charles II and some sources suggest the pair may have had an illegitimate child.
Professor Emeritus of Development Economics. Frances Stewart was Director of ODID from 1993-2003 and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the department between 2003 and 2010. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex.
17 de feb. de 2018 · Frances Stewart, Gustav Ranis, Emma Samman Oxford University Press , Feb 17, 2018 - Business & Economics - 288 pages Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth.
