Resultado da Busca
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...
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.
There is almost no surviving documentation for the life of Van Dyck’s mistress, Margaret Lemon, although some sources describe her as a famous courtesan. In this portrait, long considered lost, Lemon appears in three-quarter profile, delicately touching the fabric at her shoulder.
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.
Margaret Lemon (fl.1635-1640) c.1638. RCIN 402531. Van Dyck’s mistress, who reputedly once tried to bite off his thumb during a quarrel, is depicted in the ...
