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The recently discovered portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart by Rosalba Camera (1673-1757)
Corp focuses on the recently discovered portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart by Rosalba Carriera. Prince Charles Stuart did not leave Italy until 1744 when he was 23 years old. From those 23 years, 11 different painted portraits were recorded, of which there are about 40 replicas and contemporary copies. The other 10 were commissioned by Charles's farther James and painted to his specifications, or at least painted to show Charles as his father wanted him to be portrayed. The exception, which is a pastel painted in Venice rather than Rome Italy, has been known from various copies. But the original portrait, which is by the great Rosalba Camera (1673-1757), had never been publicly displayed until it was presented at the National Museum of Scotland in Apr 2019. Rosalba Carriera was probably the best, and surely the most famous artist, male or female, who ever painted Charles's portrait.
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Of arms and artists : the American Revolution through painters' eyes
\"The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings. As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period--Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history being made by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Ever since the passing of the last eyewitnesses to the Revolution, their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning, generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged \"-- Provided by publisher.
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From tyrant to unfit monarch: Marchamont Nedham's representation of Charles Stuart andr royalists during the interegnum
Marchamont Nedham was one of the most significant English journalists of the seventeenth century. During the interegnum, his newspaper Mercurius Politicus routinely printed stories of exiled royalists and their leader Charles Stuart. Although the topic of royalists was consistent throughout the 1650s, the royal image in Politicus was not. In the early 1650s, Nedham described Charles Stuart as a tyrant and enemy of freedom, while after 1651, the exiled king appeared as a failed monarch. Nedham's reporting of royalists was independent of government influence, and he himself elected to change his representation of royalists. It was the shifting political situation that convinced him to alter his descriptions of Charles Stuart and his followers. Reprinted by permission of Blackwell Publishers
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Protecting England and its Church: Lady Anne and the death of Charles Stuart
In 1666, the English physician Thomas Sydenham determined that patients with smallpox could remain contagious for 41 days, that apparent health was no indicator of contagiousness, and that children were the most susceptible of contracting the disease. Yet in 1677, when 12-year-old Lady Anne Stuart (later Queen Anne) contracted smallpox, only 21 days had passed when she was introduced to her 1-month-old stepbrother, Charles Stuart, heir to the throne and likely Catholic king. Charles Stuart subsequently contracted smallpox from Anne, and the infant died of the disease at a time of heightened paranoia regarding the succession of a Catholic heir. This paper assesses the motives, means, and opportunity that may have led to Anne's meeting with her stepbrother. The intention is not to suggest or prove that a deliberate attempt was made to remove the Catholic heir, rather, the purpose is to explore the reasons, implications, and possibilities that such an act may have occurred. In a period that resounded with conspiracies and threats to the Protestant succession, Charles Stuart's death, regardless of whether the infection was, or was not, caused with intent, demonstrates a reversal of common fears where the Catholic line was extinguished to the advantage of the Protestant succession. This paper examines Charles's death and its implications against a background of contemporary medical knowledge, and while it does not suggest that there is unequivocal proof linking Anne as an unwitting agent in a conspiracy, the paper nonetheless assesses the body of evidence that links Anne to Charles Stuart's death.
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William Winstanley (fl1791–1808)
Evans profiles English-born painter William Winstanley, highlighting the controversy surrounding the attribution of a full-length portrait of George Washington at the White House. The US government purchased the picture in 1800 as an unsigned replica by Gilbert Stuart, who rarely signed his work. Without question, it is a copy after Stuart's first full-length portrait of the president. Years later, a forgery claim, citing Winstanley as the culprit, appeared publicly in a New York newspaper in 1817-long after Winstanley had left the country. Winstanley arrived in New York City from London in about 1791 on unspecified business for the Episcopal Church, and he became a friend of Benjamin Moore, a well-connected assistant minister at Trinity Church. Having been welcomed by highly respected citizens, Winstanley asked for and received their letters of introduction, thereby building a widening circle of potential patrons.
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A Profane Wit
A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiringpatriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.
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Engaging the liberal state: Cardinal Manning and Irish home rule
In the course of his long career (1865–1892) as Archbishop of Westminster and head of England’s Catholic Church, Henry Edward Manning articulated a position on the engagement of voluntary religious organizations like the Church with the liberal state, now understood, at least in the British context, as religiously neutral and responsive to public opinion through increasingly democratic forms of government and mediated through political parties. The greatest test and illustration of this position was his involvement in Irish Home Rule, where he deferred to the Irish hierarchy in their support of Charles Stuart Parnell’s Irish Parliamentary Party against his own inclinations and the immediate interests of the Catholic population in England. Manning’s position was in sharp contrast to that of Pope Leo XIII, who negotiated directly with Otto von Bismarck, and over the heads of the hierarchy and Germany’s Catholic Centre Party, to end the Kulturkampf. Thus Manning worked out a modus vivendi for the Church in relation to the liberal, democratic state that anticipates in many ways the practice of the Church in politics today.
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The love of a prince : Bonnie Prince Charlie in France, 1744-1748
The product of a decade of research in the Stuart Papers at Windsor Castle, this revealing history of Bonnie Prince Charlie brings to light a fascinating new details of the prince's life, including evidence of a short-lived son, born in Paris scarcely two years after the royal fugitive escaped to France following the unlucky Battle of Culloden.
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The Myths About the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion
\"The [Scottish] 1745 Rebellion has become part of the romantic heritage in both British and Scottish history. At the time there was little romance to it. The many myths and misconceptions about Bonnie Prince Charlie and his followers need to be corrected and the glamorous image of the Rebellion eradicated.\" (Historian) Author A.E. MacRobert examines popular myths and misconceptions surrounding the 1745 Scottish rebellion. MacRobert asserts that the rebellion \"was not just an isolated occurrence like a meteor suddenly appearing and then disappearing without trace\" and that the \"defeat of the Jacobites ended decades of political uncertainty.\"
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