The Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide to the 18th Century

I was alerted on Twitter that yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Elena Cornaro Piscopia - which is as fun a name to spell as it ...

O n this day in 1793 a young French woman named Charlotte Corday sought a meeting with the prominent French revolutionary, Jean-Paul Marat, ...

Henry Howard, Harriet Cavendish , 1798 H enry Howard was a well-known portraitist and history painter in the late- eighteenth and early-...

T he Lady Lever Gallery in Liverpool has commissioned a video detailing how well-to-do women dressed in the eighteenth century.  The seven...

T his blog is guilty of regularly featuring glorious artwork from long-dead artists, but sometimes, just sometimes, it ventures into the lan...