english-history-trip:

lesfressange:

                                      Atelier de Lesfressange (Series XX)

1.
George Romney, Portrait of Lady Anne Barbara Russell 1780 

2.
Mrs. Marinus Willett and Her Son Marinus Jr., c.1802 by John Vanderlyn 

3.
Mrs Benjamin West II with her son Benjamin West III (1805) by Benjamin West

4.
1810-1812 Jane, Lady Orde and her daughter Anna by Sir Thomas Lawrence 

5.
The Empress Eugenie Holding Louis Napoleon by Franz Xavier Winterhalter 

6.
Grand Duchess Sophie of Baden with Prince Wilhelm by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1831

7.
Johanna, Mrs Robert Warner of Bedhampton, and Her Daughter, Kitty
(d.1772), Later Mrs Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, 1736, by Joseph Highmore

8.
“Lady Williams and Child,” 1783,by Ralph Earl (1751-1801) 

9.
Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Jelf Powis and her Daughter, 1777 

10.
Elizabeth Davers (1730–1800), Countess of Bristol, and Her
Daughter Lady Louisa Theodosia Hervey (1770–1821), Later Countess of
Liverpool. Painted by Antonio de Bittio c. 1773.

That first one is so slice-of-life; I love it.

“This was the only way we could get her to stay in one place.”

I like the mom trying not to crack up over the kid’s glee at holding that piece of paper.