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She was already becoming a lovely woman, with fair hair, large blue eyes, and a disarming smile. She soon secured her first theater job, as an "orange-girl," selling oranges and other fruit to playgoers. And once Nell Gwynn, a frail young sprite, Look'd kindly when I met her; I shook my head perhaps—but quite Forgot to quite forget her.
Nell Gwyn. Eleanor (Nell) Gwyn ( 2 februari 1650 – 14 november 1687) was een van de eerste Engelse actrices die beroemd werden. Ze was gedurende lange tijd minnares van Karel II van Engeland. Andere variaties van haar naam zijn Helen Gwynn en Ellen Gwynn. Ze kon nauwelijks schrijven en ondertekende met haar initialen ‘EG’.
Simon Verelst ( c .1644– c .1710) was a Dutch artist who arrived in England as a specialist flower painter but appears to have soon turned to portraiture. He painted most of the prominent figures at court at least once, using distinctive strong lighting contrasts, rather simplified modelling and bold colours.
4 de oct. de 2015 · B rothel dweller, herring gutter, hawker of oranges, mistress to a king and one of the first actresses to walk the English stage. The life of Nell Gwynn was as vivid as anything fiction could ...
4 de nov. de 2018 · Be transported to the flamboyant world of seventeenth-century London, dripping with decadent excess and bawdy amusements, in this song-and-dance-filled comedy. Nell Gwynn's quick wit and exceptional beauty propel her from selling oranges on the streets of London’s burgeoning theater district to performing on its stages, where she captures the ...
Nell Gwyn (born Feb. 2, 1650, London, Eng.—died Nov. 14, 1687, London) was an English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism.
A young Nell Gwynn is selling oranges for sixpence in London’s burgeoning West End theatre scene. Little does she know who is in the audience one fateful night. Jessica Swale’s warm-hearted, bawdy comedy tells the story of an unlikely heroine, who went from lowly orange seller to win the adoration of the public and the heart of the King.
