Category: 1740-1749
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1750 – Stephen Slaughter, Two Women Gathering Fruit
This painting of two 18th-century gentlewomen features fashionable trends in portraiture and clothing, including Orientalism, pastoralism, and masculine-inspired dress.
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1747 – Arthur Devis, Mr. and Mrs. Bull
Arthur Devis’s 1747 portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Bull seems to depict a quite fashionable couple in the year of their marriage in what we presume to be their home. But closer analysis reveals that much of the work is likely a fiction, though the clothes they’re sporting–whether their own or imagined–remain fashionable.
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1783 – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette in a Chemise DressIn 1780-1789, 18th century, artwork analysis
1778 – Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Grace Dalrymple ElliottIn 1770-1779, 18th century, artwork analysis
