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| Portrait by Gervase Spencer |
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| Charles Jervas (c1675-1739). |
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| Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, 1725. |
As wife to the British ambassador, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) is best remembered for her letters from Turkey. She is said to have written the "very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient (Billie Melman)."
But I would rather remember her for her fabulous turkish costume. I love the headdress!
And some more turquerie to leave you with...
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Mrs. Thomas Gage, 1771
by John Singleton Copley. |
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Mrs. Robert Morris by
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827). |
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| Madame de Pompadour, 1747, Charles André van Loo. |
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Marquise de Fresnes d'Aguesseau, 1789.
Elizabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun. |
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A Woman in Turkish Dress
by Jean-Étienne Liotard |
