History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 by Lara Perry

History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900

Lara Perry

220 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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The 'beauties' - women of note - who were welcomed to the National Portrait Gallery's early collection were those whose lives and portraits were recognized as significant to the 'civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation'. This brie...

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