Tag: Jacobite
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sir John Everett Millais’ The Order of Release, with Footnotes
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-1788) was defeated by the English at Culloden on 16 April 1746 and many of his supporters were imprisoned. The subject of this picture is the release of one of these Jacobite rebels from prison. The rebel’s wife, supporting their small child and comforting her exhausted, wounded husband, hands an order of release…
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02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 C
Circle of Sir John Hoppner, (British, 1758–1810) Portrait of Lady Mackintosh Oil on canvas 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.) Private collection Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh (1723–1784) was a Jacobite of the Clan Farquharson and the wife of Angus, Chief of the Clan MacKintosh. The Jacobite were a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed…
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