Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen
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'''''Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen''''' is a 1773 [[portrait painting]] by the British [[artist]] [[Joshua Reynolds]].Wood p.53 It depicts Barbara, Elizabeth and Anne the three daughters of the Irish [[politician]] [[Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet|Sir William Montgomery]]. They are shown adorning a [[statue]] of [[Hymen (god)|Hymen]] with a [[garland]] of |
'''''Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen''''' is a 1773 [[portrait painting]] by the British [[artist]] [[Joshua Reynolds]].Wood p.53 It depicts Barbara, Elizabeth and Anne the three daughters of the Irish [[politician]] [[Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet|Sir William Montgomery]]. They are shown adorning a [[statue]] of [[Hymen (god)|Hymen]] with a [[garland]] of flowers, thereby symbolising their desirability for marriage. |
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Their depictions echo that of the [[Charites|Three Graces]] and the work is sometimes known as '''''The Irish Graces'''''.https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/reynolds-three-ladies-adorning-a-term-of-hymen-n00079 |
Their depictions echo that of the [[Charites|Three Graces]] and the work is sometimes known as '''''The Irish Graces'''''. |
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The picture was displayed at the [[Royal Academy Exhibition of 1774]] at [[Somerset House]] in [[London]]. In 1837 the painting was given to the [[National Gallery]] as part of the [[bequest]] of the Irish peer the [[Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington|Earl of Blessington]]. Today it is in the collection of the [[Tate Britain]] in [[Pimlico]].https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/three-ladies-adorning-a-term-of-hymen-117665 [[John Singer Sargent]] drew on the composition of the painting for his 1902 work ''[[The Acheson Sisters]]''.Cohen p.35 |
The picture was displayed at the [[Royal Academy Exhibition of 1774]] at [[Somerset House]] in [[London]]. In 1837 the painting was given to the [[National Gallery]] as part of the [[bequest]] of the Irish peer the [[Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington|Earl of Blessington]]. Today it is in the collection of the [[Tate Britain]] in [[Pimlico]]. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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* Cohen, Michael. ''Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British Novels and Paintings''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. |
* Cohen, Michael. ''Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British Novels and Paintings''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. |
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* Wendorf, Richard. ''Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society''. Harvard University Press, 1998. |
* Wendorf, Richard. ''Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society''. Harvard University Press, 1998. |
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* Wood, Gillen D'Arcy. ''The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, |
* Wood, Gillen D'Arcy. ''The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760–1860''. Palgrave, 2001. |
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