An old tease: Kate Stanley & Elizabeth I
“Same red hair and black Boleyn eyes”: Kate Stanley and Queen Elizabeth I
Read MoreShakespeare’s Faces
Everyone knows Shakespeare’s iconic portrait from the First Folio (1623), but there are others…
Read MoreLady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson
The image bloomed upon his canvas: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her Turkish robes, by Jonathan Richardson, c. 1726 (Private Collection)…
Read MoreThe Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“Skin shiningly white”: Ingres paints Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s word picture in “The Turkish Bath,” 1862 (The Louvre)…
Read MoreZabdiel Boylston, in my dreams
No portrait of Zabdiel Boylston survives, but this is how I like to imagine him…
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