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Hace 3 días · Noblewoman; wife of 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 'Bess of Hardwick' was one of the wealthiest people in late Elizabethan England, and an important patron of architecture. She acquired her wealth through a succession of four progressively more profitable marriages, and through her own business acumen. She is remembered mainly for the house she had built at Hardwick, to a plan by the great Elizabethan ...
This Elizabethan-revival frame of 1865 was conceived by George Scharf, Secretary and later Director of the National Portrait Gallery, in collaboration with Henry Critchfield, the Gallery's framemaker. It is an unusual instance of antiquarian framing by the Gallery in its early days. The picture is an early copy of the portrait of 'Bess of ...
7 de mar. de 2023 · Bess de Hardwick fue una arquitecta y empresaria inglesa considerada como una de las mujeres más ricas de Inglaterra durante el periodo Tudor. Al pertenecer a la nobleza, pudo diseñar y financiar la construcción de varias casas de campo impresionantes como Chatsworth House , Hardwick Hall y la hoy inexistente mansión de Oldcotes .
During her lifetime Bess built two great country houses which are still admired today--Chatsworth and Hardwick--and fulfilled her lifetime's ambition of founding a great dynasty. By the end of the 19th century, her blood was flowing through most of the aristocratic families of England, and she more than guaranteed her status as one of the most remarkable women in Tudor history.
Bess de Hardwick. Elizabeth Cavendish , más tarde Elizabeth Talbot, condesa de Shrewsbury (c. 1527 - 13 de febrero de 1608), conocida como Bess of Hardwick (de soltera Elizabeth Hardwick ), de Hardwick Hall en Derbyshire, fue una figura notable de la sociedad inglesa isabelina. Mediante una serie de matrimonios bien hechos, alcanzó los ...
26 de nov. de 2021 · Bess of Hardwick’s 4th husband In 1568, Bess really hit the social jackpot by marrying George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. Husband number four was one of the richest men in the kingdom, a widower with seven children and several properties dotted across the midlands and the north, and one of the Queen’s leading Protestant aristocratic allies.
