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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (née Salusbury; later Piozzi; 27 January 1741 or 16 January 1740 – 2 May 1821), [Note 1] a Welsh-born diarist, author, socialite and patron of the arts, is an important source on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century English life.
Painted in Rome between 1785 and 1786 by an uknown artist, this portrait of Hester Thrale dates from 10 years after her visit to Versailles. After her husband death in 1781, she remaried to Gabriele Piozzi who was her daugter music teacher. This union between two people from different social positions caused a scandal among the British aristocraty.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Hester Lynch Piozzi was an English writer and friend of Samuel Johnson. In 1763 she married a wealthy brewer named Henry Thrale. In January 1765 Samuel Johnson was brought to dinner, and the next year, following a severe illness, Johnson spent most of the summer in the country with the Thrales.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
26 de abr. de 2019 · Hester Thrale (1741–1821) who was later known by the name of her second marriage 'Piozzi', was a Welsh-born author and patron of the arts. Like many of the Bluestockings, she was very close to Samuel Johnson, publishing the controversial bestselling Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson in 1786, which caused a stir amongst other ...
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899. Hester Thrale’s face radiates intelligence and determination. The sitter kept a diary of the 1775 trip to France she took with her husband and Samuel Johnson, the famed British lexicographer.
12 de fev. de 2020 · Hester Thrale’s strategies for creating her own authorial identity were inextricably linked with fashion. These strategies recognized the frameworks of dress and portraiture as essential in the creation and dissemination of her public, and later authorial, image.
27 de out. de 2010 · Curiously, British women biographers have neglected Hester Thrale Piozzi, leaving the field open to Ian McIntyre to write a thorough, and thoroughly delightful, life of “the most independent Woman in the World.”
