Identifier: fairwomeninpaint00shar (find matches)
Title: Fair women in painting and poetry
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sharp, William, 1855-1905
Subjects: Women in literature Women in art Women Beauty, Personal
Publisher: London : Seeley New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s who hadin the same way favoured Sir Joshua and Thomas Gainsborough,Romney and Sir Thomas Lawrence, Raeburn and Sir WilliamBeechey. I cared most for dark-eyed and winsome Lady Kenyon and thoseladies whom I met in company with Mr. Hoppner and Mr. Romney,though I was agreeably surprised with Sir Williams daughter-in-art,Evelina, and more than ordinarily glad to see again, with Sir Joshua,the Duchess of Rutland, who in the early decades of our centurywas the reigning beauty ; Mrs. Siddons, as the Tragic Muse ; and the fair but frail Mrs. Mary Robinson, as Perdita. Not lessdelighted was I to meet, with Sir Thomas Lawrence, the famouscomic actress Eliza Farren, Countess of Derby, as good as she wasbeautiful ; and with Mr. Gainsborough, Mrs. Fitzherbert, the morganaticwife of George, Prince of Wales ; the famous actress, Dorothy Bland(Mrs. Jordan) ; and Mrs. Sheridan. To my surprise I overheard some persons praising that Duchess ofDevonshire whom Angelica Kauffmann painted. Possibly she was
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Laay Kenyon. By John Hoppticr, R.J FAIR WOMEN 61 beautiful at the date when Gibbon the historian, who was enamoured ofher, said that if she chose to beckon the Lord Chancellor from hiswoolsack, he could not resist obedience ; but now I, for one, looked ather without the least wish to look again. Incidentally, I may add that I noticed with pleasure a few children,none more winsome than the dainty little maid whom Reynolds hasimmortalised as • Collina, none more quaint than the auld-farrantwean, whom Drouais painted blowing soap-bubbles. What a delightfulExhibition that would be which would consist entirely of children. Weall hear the innumerous murmur of little feet. Not one of us but wouldrejoice in a Fair Children show. But now let me be frank. Out of all these Fair Women was thereone who embodied my ideal of womanly beauty ? This is a questionthat every one would have to put to himself with the same apparentarrogance, as if any one individuals opinion had the least value for other

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