DOI Heft:
Nr. 336 (May 1925)
DOI Heft:Nr. 338 (July 1925)
DOI Artikel:Comstock, Helen: Reynolds, Gainsborough, Raeburn
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0240
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lady hepburn by sir henry raeburn
Cavendish, eldest daughter of the first Earl Spen- not alone her position as the bride of the matri-
cer, was born in 1757 and was married in 1774. monial catch of the day that at once enthroned
Both Reynolds and Gainsborough had painted her as a "queen of society," for her own qtieenli-
her as a child. This portrait by Reynolds was ness, her distinction of manner and of mind would
begun a year after her marriage, when she was have made her a social power. She was the friend
only eighteen years old, while the Gainsborough of Fox, Sheridan and Selwyn, was an eager
portrait was done in 1783. She had not a great listener of that king of conversationalists, John-
beauty, and yet, as Walpole said of her, she son, and was herself a poet of by no means corn-
effaced with her charm those who had it. It was monplace attainments.
(i«o forty
july 1925
lady hepburn by sir henry raeburn
Cavendish, eldest daughter of the first Earl Spen- not alone her position as the bride of the matri-
cer, was born in 1757 and was married in 1774. monial catch of the day that at once enthroned
Both Reynolds and Gainsborough had painted her as a "queen of society," for her own qtieenli-
her as a child. This portrait by Reynolds was ness, her distinction of manner and of mind would
begun a year after her marriage, when she was have made her a social power. She was the friend
only eighteen years old, while the Gainsborough of Fox, Sheridan and Selwyn, was an eager
portrait was done in 1783. She had not a great listener of that king of conversationalists, John-
beauty, and yet, as Walpole said of her, she son, and was herself a poet of by no means corn-
effaced with her charm those who had it. It was monplace attainments.
(i«o forty
july 1925