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Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Barone t (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and ...
Marriage à la mode, a 1673 Restoration comedy by John Dryden "Marriage à-la-mode" (Hogarth), a series of 18th-century paintings by William Hogarth "Marriage à la Mode" (short story), a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield
This room was part of the original 1550s house build by John Dryden, then expanded in the 17th century. [12] In the early 18th century, Edward Dryden restyled the room in medieval fashion with armour and heraldry, along with a martial overmantel painting by Elizabeth Creed, a cousin of the family. [13]
Hogarth claimed to have long been interested in the story of Sigismunda, which had appeared in England in several versions by the mid-18th century. It had become popular after being translated in John Dryden's 1699 volume of Fables, Ancient and Modern, and adapted for the English stage by James Thomson in 1745.
Category:18th-century British women artists Category:18th-century Irish women artists. Born in 17th century: Elizabeth Albin - daughter of painter Eleazar Albin; Elizabeth Creed (1642–1728) – aristocrat, artist and philanthropist, amateur painter. Cousin of the poet John Dryden.
Marriage A-la-Mode [1] [fn 1] is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society. They show the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money or social status, and satirize patronage and aesthetics.
His paintings were praised by Whig members including John Dryden, Joseph Addison, [8] Richard Steele, and Alexander Pope. On the landing in Horsham Museum in West Sussex hang works of art from the museum's extensive painting collection, featuring a large 18th-century portrait of Charles Eversfield and his wife, of Denne Park House. [9]
From the age of sixteen, Singleton worked as a professional portraitist. He attended the Royal Academy Schools from the age of seventeen and won the silver medal in 1784. His painting from John Dryden’s ode Alexander’s Feast won the gold medal in 1788. In 1793, Singleton was commissioned by the Royal Academy to paint a group portrait of ...