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artthatgivesmefeelings · 1 year

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Pierre Mignard (French, 1612-1695) Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth with an unknown female attendant, 1682

#pierre mignard #art #fine art #classical art #european art #french art #french #france #Louise de Kéroualle #Duchess of Portsmouth #public domain #world history #european #fine arts #oil painting #portsmouth

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defensivelee · 2 years

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you walk by the king's room at night you hear noises that's called fubstep

#charles ii #louise de kéroualle

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oncanvas · 11 months

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Portrait of Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, Peter Lely, circa 1671-4

Oil on canvas 125.1 x 101.6 cm (49 ¼ x 40 in.) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

#art #painting #peter lely #baroque #dutch golden age #baroque art #17th century #1670s #oil #portrait #royalty #dutch #the getty #english #british

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nancydrewwouldnever · 2 years

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Pierre Mignard, Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, with an unknown female attendant, 1682, oil/canvas (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Apparently, I am on a portraits of royal mistresses kick. Yesterday, Pompadour and Louis XV. Today, Louise and Charles II.

#pierre mignard #art #portrait #baroque #17th century

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toyourlovemp3 · 1 year

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random little detail about succession that I really like: one of the artworks hanging in Logan's apartment is a portrait of Louise de Kéroualle (1649-1734), painted circa 1671 by Sir Peter Lely:

the apartment

the portrait

Louise de Kéroualle was the mistress of Charles II (of the Stuart dynasty, which was originally from Scotland 👀). Charles didn't have any children with his wife Catherine of Braganza (but he had loads of children with other women although of course they couldn't succeed him bc they were bastards), so he was succeeded by his brother James II. His succession was an issue however, due to the fact that he was a Catholic and the English aristocracy did not like that at all. James II was eventually deposed in a coup engineered by a group of aristocrats and replaced by his daughter Mary II and son-in-law William III. Eventually when Mary died William (despite once again being merely the son-in-law 👀) reigned alone until his own death, when he was succeeded by his sister-in-law, James II's daughter Anne.

Anyway just thought this was a fun little tidbit 👀

#im brazilian i didnt study this shit in school so if i said something wrong im sorry #succession #louise de keroualle

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nellgwynn · 2 years

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forever in a louise de kéroualle mood

#tempted to become a courtesan and wheedle money from rich men #charle you must pay mon gambling debts! zis ‘eez not fair!#fr need me a rich man #shitposting #fr watch out restoration court

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venicepearl · 4 years

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Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth - Pierre Mignard

Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (5 September 1649 – 14 November 1734) was a mistress of Charles II of England.

#Louise de Kéroualle #Pierre Mignard #XVII century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

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thefreelancehistorywriter · 3 years

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Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny, and Mistress of King Charles II of England

Portrait of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth by Henri Gascar “I should do my self wrong if I told you better than all the world besides, for that were making comparison where ‘tis impossible to express the true passion and kindness I have for my dearest fubs.” (Charles’ nickname for Louise was ‘fubs’). (Source: Duchess of Portsmouth’s MSS, Goodwood MS 3) According to an existing…

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artfoli · 4 years

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Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, 1682, by Pierre Mignard (1612-1695)

#Louise de Kéroualle Duchess of Portsmouth #french art #portrait #art history #art #17th century #Pierre Mignard #artwork #french #france #art history blog #1600s #1600's #1680s #painting #arte

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books0977 · 3 years

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Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (c.1670). Henri Gascard (French, 1635-1701). Oil on canvas. Auckland Art Gallery.

Louise de Kéroualle was dispatched to England by Louis XIV to be the mistress of King Charles II. The painting has ironic references, not least the King Charles spaniel, as traditionally lap dogs symbolised faithfulness and chastity. The gesture of an outstretched hand was often used in marriage portraits, and may refer to the mock ceremony which took place between Louise and the King on her arrival in England in early October 1671. Although the symbolism is English, the overall picture has the formality of a French court painting.

#art #portrait #Louise de Keroualle Duchess of Portsmouth #Henri Gascard #French

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inky-duchess · 4 years

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Have you ever watched Versailles? Omg who knew I would love Philippe d’Orleans more than his brother king Louis xiv. I always like the underdogs more anyway

I love Versailles. It's just one of those shows that takes you out of your surroundings and dumps you in the middle of that world. I absolutely would love another season. The casting is amazing, I love George Blagden and I absolutely love Alexander Vhalos (baby Mordred😍), their chemistry is fire and Philippe is just amazijg. I love Monchevy because it's just *chef kiss*. Liselotte was always my favorite member of the Bourbons because she's me (chunky, is a shady bitch and is surrounded by clueless gays). I love Madam de Montespan but I have mixed feelings on the actress because she never clicked to me as my first choice for Montespan but she's incredible. I prefer the second season hands down but I wish we could have seen more Charles II and perhaps some Louise de Kéroualle mentions. I wanted more out of the jewels and more opulent Gowns. Why couldn't we just have this level of perfection all the time?

#ask answered #Versailles is just a Palace of dumb gays who don't know how to gay #I want the gowns #The jewels #I want the lifestyle #SOMEBODY JUST TAKE ME TO VERSAILLES AND RELEASE ME INTO MY NATURAL HABITAT PLEASE

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pethoanita-tizennyolcadikszazad · 2 years

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A nap portréja: Lady Caroline Lennox

Joshua Reynolds portréja (készült 1757-58) Lady Catoline Lennoxról.

Lady Caroline (1723-1774) Charles Lennox, Richmond 2. hercegének legidősebb lánya volt, ezáltal II. Károly egyik dédunokája. 1744-ben szülői beleegyezés nélkül kötött házasságot a polgári számazasú Henry Foxszal. A férj a következő években komoly politikai karriert futott be, komoly vagyont szedett össze, melyet majd gyermekeik, köztük a később szintén jelentős politikai szerepet játszó Charles James Fox, igyekeztek kicsapongó életmódjukkal elverni.

(a nap portréja apropója: Lady Caroline dédnagyanyja, Louise de Kéroualle Peter Lely által készített portréja megjelenik az HBO Utódlás című sorozata legújabb - 3. szezon 4. epizód - részében)

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european-royalties · 3 years

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#OnThisDay 1st 📸 - Year 1649, Birth of Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth. Louise was the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kéroualle (d. 1690) and his wife (married on 27 February 1645) Marie de Ploeuc de Timeur (d. January 1709), paternal granddaughter of René de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kéroualle et Villeneuve, and his wife (married on 12 October 1602) Julienne Emery du Pont-l'Abbé, Dame du Chef du Bois, and maternal granddaughter of Sébastien de Ploeuc, Marquis de Timeur, and his wife (married on 8 January 1617) Marie de Rieux (d. 1628). The name Kéroualle was derived from an heiress whom an ancestor François de Penhoët had married in 1330. 2nd 📸 - Year 1664, Birth of Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield. formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his best known mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. Known for her beauty, Charlotte was married at age 12 to her husband, Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, with whom she had a large family. #HistoryofRoyals #RoyalHistory #RoyalBirth https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcPLKwFc80/?utm_medium=tumblr

#onthisday #historyofroyals #royalhistory #royalbirth

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princessofeboli1225 · 5 years

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Louise Renée de Penencoët de Kéroualle (1649–1734), Duchess of Portsmouth by Peter Lely(after) National Trust Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.... https://www.instagram.com/p/BtL7iR7g-Vq2F5XAlH-Lb-w1LveUByNqoLIVEw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oovd5fr8oaas

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somanyhumanbeings · 7 years

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Peter Lely, Louise de Kéroualle (1671)

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ladystylestores · 4 years

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Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II’ on King Charles II and His Lovers. – WWD

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LONDON — Britain’s King Charles II, with his big wig and little moustache, his love of masquerade balls and bug-eyed spaniels, is, along with King Henry VIII, a monarch with a grip on the British imagination.

The symbol of Restoration England, Charles was the sporty, tall and handsome “merry monarch” who restored the theaters when he returned to England after a youth spent in peripatetic exile on the Continent; the founder of The Royal Society, the oldest national scientific institution in the world, and the king who tapped Sir Christopher Wren to rebuild London after the Great Fire. Without Charles’ royal patronage there would have been no St. Paul’s Cathedral, Kensington Palace, Chelsea Royal Hospital or even No. 10 Downing Street.

Barbara Palmer as Mary Magdalene painted by Sir Peter Lely. Photo Courtesy of Picador

Charles was also a diehard philanderer, often referred to as “the father” of England, with 14 children by seven mistresses, but none by his long-suffering Portuguese wife Catherine of Braganza. His various descendants include Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson, former Prime Minister David Cameron, former First Lady Samantha Cameron, the Duchess of Cornwall, and scores of others. When Prince William becomes king, he will be the first British monarch directly descended from Charles II, through his mother’s family.

The king’s amorous exploits are so embedded in the culture here that schoolchildren can rap out the names of his mistresses as they sing along to “King of Bling,” which is based on Eminem’s “My Name Is,” from the hit BBC TV Series “Horrible Histories.”

Charles is also remembered for his chaotic early life, and for the difficult backdrop against which he ruled: His father, King Charles I, had been executed by Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan allies, and the young Charles, his siblings and mother spent years drifting around the Continent, borrowing money from family, including first cousin, King Louis XIV of France, and leaning on friends.

Louise de Kéroualle Photo Courtesy of Picador

The England that Charles returned to in 1660, aged 30, unmarried, and already the father of numerous children, was still fraught with religious, political and moral tensions. His 25-year reign was marked by battles with Parliament, constant money worries, dubious alliances with his French cousins, a debauched court — not to mention the ever-present threats of bubonic plague, smallpox and syphilis. His reign took in the Great Fire of London, and a period known as the Little Ice Age, when temperatures plummeted across Europe.

In her latest book, “Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II” (Picador), the historian Linda Porter looks at the king through the lens of his Portuguese queen, Catherine of Braganza, and a string of mistresses. In doing so, Porter sheds light on the mood of the country and the court in those colorful Restoration years — and on the character of the bewigged man himself.

It’s a pretty radical view: Although the king died in 1685, his antics, personal and political, continue to bewitch historians and writers who have long been indulgent of the Stuart king. She’s not buying the hype.

“He’s gone down in British history as the merry monarch, and people still think of him as a nudge-nudge, wink-wink sort of jolly good fellow type. But I don’t see him that way: He was obviously a man of considerable, but lazy, intellect and he didn’t like the business of ruling. He chose quite competent ministers — and was quite willing to set them against each other,” says Porter in a telephone interview from her home near London.

Hortense Mancini Photo Courtesy of Picador

“I think in terms of human feeling, he is a more approachable and likeable person than Henry VIII. But in terms of the way he actually conducted himself, I think he thought he was above the criticism of the country.”

Porter says she finds it hard to like Charles because his treatment of his wife is “quite appalling. One of the things I’ve tried to do to rehabilitate her reputation. She’s not the sort of weepy dope that people think she is.” Catherine, a devout Catholic who was unable to conceive, didn’t exactly have it easy with a husband like Charles, who paraded his shrewd young mistresses in front of her for their entire 23-year marriage.

Loyal, strong and undeterred by her skirt-chasing husband, she made the best of her situation. Catherine brought her fabulous, exotic taste in interiors, art and music to the royal court and famously introduced tea drinking — for pleasure rather than medicinal purposes — to the English. After Charles’ death she returned to Portugal and acted as regent for her brother Dom Pedro II, negotiating trade deals and winning the respect of British, French and Iberian rulers alike.

Lucy Walter, who bore Charles his first son, James, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch.

Charles was lucky to have Catherine by his side but he took little notice: He was too busy with the scheming and scandal-prone Barbara Palmer, an upper-class lady with whom he had five children, and with Nell Gwyn, the poor orange seller-turned-actress and a big-hearted spendthrift whose lavish dinner parties were the talk of society.

He was also spending considerable amounts of time with Louise de Kéroualle, a minor French noble with the delusions of a political power broker; Moll Davis, a singer and dancer whose legs the king couldn’t resist, and the beautiful — and unconventional — Hortense Mancini, who was on the run from her maniacal husband.

These ladies — and others — competed simultaneously for the king’s affections, his power and his (unstable) finances as they fought to secure property, titles and regular incomes for themselves and their illegitimate children.

These women also took lovers (to keep themselves occupied between royal trysts) and sought to make advantageous marriages for themselves or their children. Lucky for them the king was a generous sort: He never truly abandoned his lovers, or had them killed. And no matter how much time passed or how many women Charles was juggling, he retained an “easy affection” for his lovers, and his children.

Porter also writes about the publicity these women sought — shamelessly commissioning portraits of themselves as saints or goddesses — and the abuse they were willing to suffer at the hands of courtiers, pamphlet writers, gossips and sometimes their own family members because of their liaisons with the king.

Linda Porter, the historian and non-fiction author. Photo courtesy of Linda Porter

The book includes a vile poem (unprintable here) about the ambitious Barbara Palmer, written by one of her relatives, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham. Porter rightfully points out that “even today’s celebrities, accustomed to the viciousness of Twitter, might be shocked by the obscene verses and pamphlets aimed at Barbara.”

These women were the founders of some of the biggest, wealthiest British families, and while their portraits still hang in galleries throughout Europe, “their place in British history, and their influence, is somewhat ephemeral,” admits Porter. “But that doesn’t make them any less fun to read about.”

Interesting and dynamic, “they were the most glamorous set of women from 17th-century England, a bit like what the six wives of Henry VIII are to the 16th century, except there are even more of them. And we know more about them because they’re a century closer to us. We’ve got more of their letters, and they are just more accessible,” says Porter.

Despite having studied Charles and his family in depth (one of her previous books is “Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars”) Porter admits that, in some ways, she is still no closer to knowing the merry monarch. “Charles was an inscrutable man. I once described him as an enigma even to himself.”

For her next book, Porter is crossing the Channel and turning her attention to another colorful and divisive figure — although with a much larger wig: Marie Antoinette. Porter, who has a doctorate in history from the University of York, and whose specialization was the early modern English and French era, says she’s eager to return to her studies of the French Revolution.

Her plan is to write a book called, “To Kill a Queen: The Last Days of Marie Antoinette.” She believes there’s a lot of information about the controversial queen that is not well-known — or not translated into English — and she’s eager to dive into it.

“Most biographers of Marie Antoinette gallop over her last year in record time, and concentrate much more on her childhood and the period of queen at Versailles, and all that. But I like the Revolution.”

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