{"title":"A Happy Ending for Lady Skipwith: Portraits by Reynolds and Lawrence","authors":"Aimee Ng","doi":"10.5325/ninecentstud.33.0158","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This essay explores the relationship between biography and portraiture in British paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. New biographical information about Selina, Lady Skipwith (1752–1832), a sitter portrayed by both Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–92) and Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), offers opportunities to examine the possibilities and limits of biography in art historical investigation.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/ninecentstud.33.0158","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay explores the relationship between biography and portraiture in British paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. New biographical information about Selina, Lady Skipwith (1752–1832), a sitter portrayed by both Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–92) and Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), offers opportunities to examine the possibilities and limits of biography in art historical investigation.
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.
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