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Venetia Anastasia, Lady Digby (née Stanley; December 1600 – 1 May 1633) was a celebrated beauty of the Stuart period and the wife of a prominent courtier and scientist, Sir Kenelm Digby. She was a granddaughter of Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland and a great-granddaughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby .
Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed. Venetia Stanley (1600-33) was an infamous wit and beauty in the court of King Charles I (1600-49). Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65) was a diplomat, naval commander, poet, and scientist. The couple fell in love, eloped, and married in 1625.
6 de fev. de 2024 · 6 February 2024. Anthony van Dyck’s Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed (1633) Photo: Matthew Hollow Photography. Book Club. The Art Newspaper’ s Book Club shines a light on art books in their...
One of the greatest beauties and wits of her day (though with a rather racy reputation), Venetia was married to Sir Kenelm Digby, scholar, warrior and inventor. She died suddenly in May 1633,...
Summary. T his beautiful heroine of her celebrated husband's devotion, was a very remarkable personage at her time, and is so intimately connected with Sir Kenelm, his pursuits and adventures,–strange and picturesque as they were,–that she has always excited considerable interest.
- Louisa Stuart Costello
- 2010
4 de mar. de 2022 · Venetia, Lady Digby (1600-33) was a celebrated beauty of the Stuart period. Muse to the poet and playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637) and a sitter in numerous paintings by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), she captivated many with her ‘lovely and sweet-turn’d face’,[1] and her ‘modesty, sweetnesse and gentleness’.[2]
Venetia, Lady Digby. (1600-1633), Beauty; wife of Sir Kenelm Digby. Sitter in 4 portraits. Noted for her beauty and intelligence, Venetia Stanley was the wife of the diplomat and author, Sir Kenelm Digby.
