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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 .
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.
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).
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 ...
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.
30 de oct. de 2022 · Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1648-1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
Frances was depicted as Britannia on two commemorative medals. Unfortunately in 1668 she was disfigured by smallpox. Wax effigy. She ordered that her wax effigy, dressed in her coronet, robes and shoes worn at Queen Anne's coronation, be set up in Henry VII's chapel near the grave of Ludovic Stuart, cousin of James I, (d
