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Margaret Lemon (born c. 1614) was an English artist's model. She was the most painted female commoner of the seventeenth century, and she was the partner of Anthony van Dyck.
The text has been divided into three main chronological groups: first, the paintings by Van Dyck which James assigns to the period 1629–36 and which she has identified for the first time as containing images of Margaret Lemon; secondly, works of the period 1638–41, which include the generally accepted Van Dyck portraits of Lemon; thirdly, painti...
10 de fev. de 2018 · When Porter was seriously wounded in battle in 1643, Margaret Lemon believed he would die and shot herself. This tragic story was forgotten by later generations, but – as Dr Maddicott discovers – at the time it must have been quite a sensation.
Margaret Lemon was Van Dyck’s mistress and is unfortunately known to us today only through contemporary tittle-tattle. A fellow artist of Van Dyck, Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), described her as violently jealous, even on one occasion attempting to bite Van Dyck’s thumb off.
Margaret Lemon was Van Dyck’s mistress and is unfortunately known to us today only through contemporary tittle-tattle. A fellow artist of Van Dyck, Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), described her as violently jealous, even on one occasion attempting to bite Van Dyck’s thumb off.
Who was Margaret Lemon, the young lady depicted in the 17 th-century portrait miniature kept at the Fondation Custodia? Clad in men’s clothes, she stares at us haughtily and has long been an enigma for art historians.
Etched after an earlier portrait by Anthony van Dyck of Margaret Lemon, the painter’s most famous mistress The first four lines, below the title are a paean to the youth and beauty for which Lemon was celebrated among the greatest of the English nobility.
