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History's Beauties - Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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History's Beauties - Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: British Art and Visual Culture since 1750 New Readings
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The 'beauties' - women of note - who were welcomed to the National
Portrait Gallery's early collection were those whose lives and
portraits were recognized as significant to the 'civil,
ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation'. This brief was
interpreted to include figures as diverse as the devout Lady
Margaret Beaufort, and the entertaining Lady Emma Hamilton.
History's Beauties, the first detailed study of this collection,
maps a culture of femininity that reframes the Victorian
fascination with women's domestic and sentimental presence by
locating it within a Parliament-centred 'national' culture.
Including an essay on the Gallery's Trustees, the book traces the
translation of their governors' culture to a public institution
through discussions of three themes in the National Portrait
Gallery's collection of women's portraits: portraits of the Royal
family and the cult of legitimacy in antiquities and in national
identity; the educated woman as model of domestic and national
cultivation; and finally the role of female beauty in defining
social and artistic power in nineteenth-century Britain. The first
monograph study of gender in a major museum, History's Beauties
engages themes of gender, national identity, class cultures, and
aesthetics in Victorian England to interpret the National Portrait
Gallery's fascinating collection.
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