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Collector's Journal — Historical Portraits

Napoleon in Uniform: Researching a 19th-Century Imperial Portrait After Robert Lefèvre

19th Century Art 19th Century Paintings Antique Oil Paintings Art Attribution Art Collectors Art History Art Provenance Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD Collectors Journal Design Trade European Fine Art Film and Television Fine Art Collecting Fine Art Research French Art French History French School Historic Interiors Historical Portraits Imperial Guard Imperial Portraiture Interior Designers Jacques-Louis David Légion d’honneur Military Portraits Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon I Napoleon Portrait Napoleonic Art Napoleonic Era Portrait Paintings Private Collectors Production Design Robert Lefèvre

Napoleon in Uniform: Researching a 19th-Century Imperial Portrait After Robert Lefèvre

New research into a commanding c.1870 portrait of Napoleon I reveals a compelling connection with Robert Lefèvre's official Imperial portrait tradition.

 

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Sir James Campbell of Lawers: A Georgian Military Portrait and the William Aikman Connection

18th Century Art 18th Century Paintings Antique Oil Paintings Art Attribution Art Collectors Art History Art Provenance Battle of Dettingen Battle of Fontenoy British Fine Art British Military History Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD Collectors Journal Design Trade Early Georgian Art Edinburgh Castle Film and Television Fine Art Collecting Fine Art Research Georgian Art Georgian Portraits Historic Interiors Historical Portraits Interior Designers Military Portraits National Galleries of Scotland Old Master Paintings Order of the Bath Portrait Paintings Private Collectors Production Design Royal North British Dragoons Scots Greys Scottish Art Scottish Military History Scottish Portraits Sir James Campbell Sir James Campbell of Lawers William Aikman

Sir James Campbell of Lawers: A Georgian Military Portrait and the William Aikman Connection

Explore new research into an early Georgian Scottish portrait of Sir James Campbell of Lawers, its historic William Aikman attribution and remarkable military history.

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Sir Walter Raleigh: How an Elizabethan Icon Was Reimagined in Georgian Britain

18th Century Art Art Research British Portraiture Collectors Journal Elizabeth I Elizabethan England Elizabethan Portraiture English School Georgian Art Georgian Britain Historical Portraits Lennard Portrait National Portrait Gallery Old Master Portraits Provenance Research Roanoke Sir Walter Raleigh Tower of London Virginia Walter Raleigh Woolley & Wallis

Sir Walter Raleigh: How an Elizabethan Icon Was Reimagined in Georgian Britain

An intimate eighteenth-century portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh reveals how the image of one of Elizabethan England’s most celebrated figures survived through paintings, engravings and Georgian fascination with Britain’s national past.

 

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King William III: Portraiture, Power and the Glorious Revolution

18th Century Art After Sir Godfrey Kneller Art Conservation Art Research British Art British Royal Portraits Collectors Journal Glorious Revolution Great George Historical Portraits King William III Late Stuart Art Mary II Order of the Garter Royal Portraiture Scottish Provenance Sir Godfrey Kneller Stuart Monarchy William of Orange

King William III: Portraiture, Power and the Glorious Revolution

An imposing early eighteenth-century portrait of King William III reveals how royal imagery projected authority after the Glorious Revolution, from Sir Godfrey Kneller’s influential portrait types to the ancient symbolism of the Order of the Garter.

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