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"La Belle Stuart" by Cyril Hughes Hartmann is the biography of Frances Teresa Stuart, a young lady who was a distant relative of Charles II and a beauty of his court. While her family sought refuge in France during the Cromwell period, she was a favorite of the French court and well regarded by both Charles' mother Henrietta and his sister Minette.
STUART or STEWART, FRANCES TERESA, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1647–1702), ‘La Belle Stuart,’ born on 8 July 1647 (Sloane MS. 1708, f. 121), was elder daughter of Walter Stewart, M.D. Her father, who took refuge in France after 1649, and seems to have been attached to the household of the queen dowager, Henrietta Maria, was third son of Walter Stewart or Stuart, first
Frances Teresa Stuart was a Maid of Honour and later Lady of the Bedchamber to Catherine of Braganza, and was considered one of the greatest beauties at the Restoration court. Charles II was passionately devoted to her, pursuing her relentlessly without success - he was infuriated by her clandestine marriage in 1667 to Charles Stuart, 3rd Duke of Richmond.
This picture forms one of the ‘Windsor Beauties’ series, a set of eleven portraits of celebrated women at the Restoration court painted by Sir Peter Lely. The series was apparently commissioned or at least assembled by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, probably around 1662-5. Pepys recorded on 21 August 1668 that he ‘did first see the Duke of York’s room of pictures of some Maids of Honour ...
9 de jun. de 2016 · Frances Teresa Stewart or Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July 1647 –15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England.
Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, court beauty and favourite of Charles II, is shown in Samuel Coopers miniature wearing female riding attire consisting of a scarlet riding habit embroidered in gold and silver worn over a lilac undervest. She chose to be portrayed in the same guise in Coopers miniature dated 1666 (Mauritshuis, The Hague). The details of the two costumes vary, however, and ...
Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox. by Willem Wissing, and Jan van der Vaart oil on canvas, 1687 83 7/8 in. x 51 in. (2130 mm x 1295 mm)
