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Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (ca 1641-1709) c. 1663-65 The series was commissioned 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, done by Lilly: Good, but not like.’
15 de jul. de 2011 · La amante pobre, Barbara Villiers (1640-1709) Retrato de Barbara Villiers, Henri Gascar. Wikimedia Commons. Barbara Villiers ascendió desde una familia noble arruinada al lecho del rey que trajo la Restauración monárquica a Inglaterra. La duquesa de Cleveland fue una de la larga lista de amantes del alegre monarca, al que dio cinco hijos.
13 de abr. de 2024 · Barbara Villiers figures prominently in Bernard Shaw's play In Good King Charles's Golden Days. Barbara is the protagonist in Royal Mistress, by Patricia Campbell Horton (1977) Barbara Palmer née Villiers, as Countess of Castlemaine, features prominently in Kathleen Winsor's scandalous 1944 bestseller "Forever Amber".
More numerous than suggested by the selection of images analysed here, Barbara Villiers’s portraits as a group present one of the more straightforward and enlightening cases for a study of a Restoration sitter. 8 Two factors determine this assertion: (i) she was without question the woman most often represented in painted portraits during the first decade of the Restoration; and (ii) the ...
5 de abr. de 2024 · The real story behind the duo was in many ways even stranger than the new fictionalized retelling. James indeed lavished wealth and status on his much-younger male favorite, George Villiers ...
RCIN 404957. 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 ...
Barbara Villiers Countess of Suffolk. Baptised in Westminister Abbey on June 1, 1622, Barbara was on the celebrity A list from birth, thanks to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, her father’s half brother and favourite of King James I. A prized pawn in the matrimony market, Barbara was married off at a young age, although there appears ...
