Lady Clementina Hawarden's pictures of her daughters (including Isabella, left) from the 1860s are set to fetch £150,000 at auction. She used the entire first floor of her London home as a studio.
Georgian Rococo hairstyle. Photography: Tim Babiak. Model: Ariel Livingston. male model: Leslie Hethcox. Wigs and makeup: Allison Lowery.
From the Regency era to the end of the 1860s, there was no fashion accessory as versatile and ubiquitous as the shawl.
If you think you take too much time to get ready in the morning, wait till you meet this young woman who dresses to impress in a very unusual way. Mila Povoroznyuk from Ukraine, who is known to her fans as your_sunny_flowers, has ditched all modern fashion trends to follow her own aesthetic that makes her look like she came back from the 19th century.
Marcelle Lender (1862 – 1926) was a French singer, dancer and entertainer made famous in paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Born Anne-Marie Marcelle Bastien, she began dancing at the age of si…
A batch of interesting photos from almost 200 years ago.
19th century spanish painting
Although fashion did not embrace the look of trousers on the female form until the late 20th century, history saw working women wearing them a hundred years prior. From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation. Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned Victorian era right on through to the ultra glamorous 1930s. Victorian era 1896 Edwardian era 1920s 1920s 1926 Veronica Lake. 1930s. Harpers Bazaar, December 1939. Ethel Waters. 1920s. c.1890 Dr. Mary Walker, 1866. c.1870 1880s 1900s 1908 c.1900 Calamity Jane, c.1895. c.1906 1896 Cowgirl, 1915. 1860s c.1900 c.1900s c.1900s c.1910 (via A n j o u)
If you've ever looked at pictures from the Victorian era then you've probably noticed that nobody is smiling. Everybody looks so serious that it seems as if people in the 1800s simply didn't know how to have fun. But as these pictures prove, that wasn't always the case.
Natale Schiavoni. Portrait of a Lady, 19th Century.
The General between his cocoa and his newspaper, had luckily no leisure for noticing her… Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey When sixteenth-century explorers brought cocoa beans from Mexico to Sev…
Lady Clementina Hawarden's pictures of her daughters (including Isabella, left) from the 1860s are set to fetch £150,000 at auction. She used the entire first floor of her London home as a studio.
Franz X. Winterhalter, Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 1843, oil on canvas, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. HOUSTON, TX .- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , opens High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter, an exhibition...
French painter Joseph Caraud (one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one - 1 905), one of the best portrait painters and engravers of the 19th century. Even before he started his art education at the School of Fine Arts, he made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1843. From 1843 to 1846, he presented a few more portraits to earn money for a trip to Italy, because, since 1848, the paintings were ba..
