Hamilton, Emma Lady

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Basic data

  1. Lyon, Amy Birth Name
  2. April 26, 1765 in Ness bei Great Neston
  3. January 15, 1815 in Calais
  4. Neapel, London

Iconography

Portrait as a girl (aged seventeen)by George Romney, c. 1782 (Source: Wikimedia)
Emma as Circe, at Waddesdon Manor. This is the first portrait in which Romney painted Emma in this guise, from July to August 1782. (Source: Wikimedia)
Emma as Circe, by George Romney, 1782 (Source: Wikimedia)
Emma by George Romney in Rothschild collection, MFA Boston c.1784 (Source: Wikimedia)
Another portrait by George Romney, c. 1785 (Source: Wikimedia)
Lady Hamilton as Muse (1791), by Angelika Kauffmann (Source: Wikimedia)
Lady Hamilton as Ariadne by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1790 (Source: Wikimedia)
Lady Hamilton made the striking of attitudes into an art form, portraying classical themes such as the Judgement of Paris. (Source: Wikimedia)
Emma performing the "Attitudes", caricatured by Thomas Rowlandson, mid-1810s (Source: Wikimedia)
In A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique (1801), James Gillray caricatured Sir William's attitude towards the affair between Emma and Nelson. Emma is the portrait of "Cleopatra" in the upper left, and Nelson is the adjacent "Mark Antony". (Source: Wikimedia)
'Lady Hamilton as the Persian Sibyl', 1792, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, commissioned by the Duc de Brissac and painted in Naples, a copy of which was sent to Sir William. This portrait gained great fame wherever it was displayed, and was instrumental in the rise of Le Brun's career as a portrait artist.[8]102, 104, 124, 129 (Source: Wikimedia)
Dido in Despair (caricature published in 6 February 1801). This James Gillray print (among many others) satirizes the scandalous relationship between Nelson and Emma Hamilton casting them in the roles of Dido and Aeneas. Sir William can be seen sleeping in the back. (Source: Wikimedia)
Horatia Ward née Nelson (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis Emma Hamilton, Lady H., geb. Harte (eig. Amy Lyon), Christoph Veit Schellhorn -  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Emma Hamilton, Lady H., geb. Harte (eig. Amy Lyon), George Romney -  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Hamilton, Emma Lady,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Biographical information from the WeGA

Geliebte bzw. ab 1791 Ehefrau von Lord William Hamilton (1730–1803), 1798 bis 1805 Geliebte von Lord Horatio Nelson (1758–1805)

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