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Elegant Portraits of Noble Women

Refined portraits of women from aristocratic backgrounds, showcasing elaborate attire and jewelry, highlighting the elegance and sophistication of their era.

Portrait of Marie Louise of Savoy (1749-1792), Princess of Lamballe by Callet, Antoine-Francois (1741ñ1823) / Musee de l'Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles / ca 1776 / France / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 123x96,3 / Rococo
Portrait of Marie Louise of Savoy (1749-1792), Princess of Lamballe by Callet, Antoine-Francois (1741ñ1823) / Musee de l'Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles / ca 1776 / France / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 123x96,3 / Rococo
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Maria Theresa (1717-1780). Empress of Austria (1740) of the House of Habsburg. The painting was made as a present for Flandes, which paid for the empress' dress. Oil on canvas. BELGIUM. EAST FLANDERS. Ghent. City hall.Portrait of a Lady, Three-Quarter Length, Dressed as a Pilgrim, and Wearing a Blue Lined Straw Hat and Feather. Circle of Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee (1725-1805). Oil on canvas. Dated 1747. 100.4 x 75.2cm.Portrait of Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649-1734), Gascar, Henri (1635-1701)ANA DE AUSTRIA - CUARTA ESPOSA DE FELIPE II-1549/80-207X107 CM-O/L. Author: SANCHEZ COELLO (COPIA). Location: CONVENTO DE LA ENCARNACION. MADRID. SPAIN. FELIPE II FAMILIA. FELIPE II ESPOSA. ANA DE AUSTRIA 1549/1580 ESPOSA DE FELIPE II. ANA DE AUSTRIA (1549-1580) ESPOSA DE FELIPE II.Portrait of a Woman, possibly Elizabeth Boothby, 1619. Cornelis Jonson (called Jonson van Ceulen) (British, 1593-1661). Oil on wood; framed: 93.5 x 78 x 5 cm (36 13/16 x 30 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 65.7 x 56 cm (25 7/8 x 22 1/16 in.).'Portrait of Stepanida Yakovleva'. Russia, After 1756. Dimensions: 90x72 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Ivan Vishnyakov.Jean Marc Nattier; French; Paris 1685-1766 Paris; Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter; 1749; Oil on canvas.The Charmes of the Morning. Louis-Marin Bonnet; French, 1736-1793. Date: 1777. Dimensions: . Pastel-manner engraving and etching in color, with gold leaf, on ivory laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Portrait of a woman (Anna Mons (1672Ð1714) by Anonymous / Private Collection / Baroque / 1700s / / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 72x60Princess María Francisca de Asis de Borbón and Her Son Infante Carlos Luis María Fernando de Borbón. Artist: Luis de la Cruz y Rios (Spanish, active by 1815-died 1850). Dimensions: Obverse and reverse each 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (57 x 47 mm). Date: 1818. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Portrait of Leszczyńska as a young girl. Courtin Jacques-François, painterPortrait of Catherine of Holstein-Beck by Pietro Antonio Rotari, Oil on canvas, 1760-1762, 1707-1762, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 57x45Catherine 2 (1729-96), Empress of Russia, Vigilias Erichsen, 1749 - 1782 painting Portrait of Catharina II, Empress of Russia. Bust to the right, with a diamond crown on the head. canvas. oil paint (paint) historical persons - BB - woman. emperor - BB - female rulerPortrait of Anna Wake, by Anthony van Dyck, 1628, Royal Art Gallery, Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, Netherlands, EuropeWilhelmina Carolina (Carolina; 1743-87), Princess of Oranje-Nassau, daughter of Willem IV and Sister of Willem V, as a child. Portrait of Wilhelmina Carolina (1743-87), Princess of Oranje-Nassau, daughter of Willem IV and Sister of Willem V, as a child. Half, sitting, a flower wreath in the hands. Right a table and a garden vase, left a (painted) Landscape. Part of the portrait miniaturen collection.Livia Colonna by Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) / Museo del Prado, Madrid / 1570-1572 / Italy, Venetian School / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 121x98 / RenaissancePortrait of a Flemish Lady. Dated: probably 1618. Dimensions: overall: 123 x 90 cm (48 7/16 x 35 7/16 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Anthony Van Dyck.Portrait of Elżbieta Woroncow née Branicka(1792-1880). Blaas, Carl von (1815-1894), painterAustria, Wachau Valley, Melk. 900 year old baroque Melk Abbey (aka Benediktinerstift). Portrait of Maria Theresa, Hapsburg Dynasty.Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641), Lady with a Fan, c. 1628, oil on canvasEmpress Maria Theresa of Austria, by Martin van Meytens Oil on canvas Town Hall, Ghent. Maria Theresa (1717-1780), archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, began her rule in 1740. She was the only woman ruler in the 650 history of the Habsburg dynasty. She was also one of the most successful Habsburg rulers, male or female, while bearing sixteen children between 1738 and 1756. She died in 1780Portrait of Amalia from Solms (1602-75); Portrait of Amalia from Solms (1602-75), Wife of Prince Frederik Hendrik. Portrait of Amalia of Solms, the wife of Prince Frederik Hendrik. Knee piece, standing at a balustrade, right a column. A cherry branch in the right hand. Pendant of SK-A-178.Portrait of Anna Wake 1605-before 1669, Anthony van Dyck, 1628Portrait of a Lady, standing three-quarter length, wearing a Lavender and White Satin Dress. Jan Mytens (1614-1670). Oil on canvas. 110.5 x 88.9cm.Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842). French portrait painter. Portrait of Anne Catherine Le Preudhomme de Chtenoy, Countess of Verdun, 1782. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Ancient Art (MNAA). Lisbon. Portugal.Aphra Behn. Date/Period: Ca. 1670. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 768 mm (30.23 in); Width: 641 mm (25.23 in). Author: Peter Lely.Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667-1745, British, Lady Anne Cavendish (daughter of Elihu Yale ), ca. 1725. Oil on canvas.Miss Farren, Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), and Charles Knight, 1743-c.1826, British, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830, British, Published by Bull & Jeffryes, active 1793-1804, British, 1792, Color-printed etching and stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor (possibly fifth state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 21 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (54.6 × 34.3 cm) and Image: 19 1/2 × 12 1/2 inches (49.5 × 31.8 cm)Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano, Anton Raphaël Mengs, 1771 - 1772Anne I of Great Britain and Ireland (1665-1714). Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (1702-1714). After the union of England and Scotland in 1707, Anne became the first sovereign of Great Britain and the last of the House of Stuart. Color engraving. Young Woman in Fancy Dress, by Rembrandt, 1633, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe,Jenny Lind (Johanna Maria Lind) (1820-1887). Swedish opera singer. Portrait by Eduard Magnus (1799-1872). Oil on canvas (118,1 x 94,6 cm), ca.1861. Replica after a portrait of 1846. National Portrait Gallery. London, England, United Kingdom. Author: Eduard Magnus (1799-1872). German painter.Przeszoc Przyszoci unknownMarie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SVIGN, 1626-96 French writerRetrato de doña Dolores Tosta de Santa Anna Portrait of Doña Dolores Tosta de Santa Anna. Date/Period: 1855. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 2,100 mm (82.67 in); Width: 1,543 mm (60.74 in). Author: Juan Cordero.Portrait of Empress Catherine II by Vigilius Erichsen, Oil on canvas, 1779, 1722-1782, Russia, St. Petersburg , State Russian Museum, 72x55Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (1729-1785). Infanta of Spain and Queen consort of Sardinia. Portrait by Domenico Dupra (1689-1770), ca.1757. Museum of Fine Arts. A Coru-a, Galicia, Spain. (On loan, Prado Museum, Madrid).Rosalia Cravosio, A Sweet Thought.Catherine II, the Great (1729-1796), Empress of Russia from 1796 to 1794. Dmitri Levichki (1735-1822), Russian-Ukrainian painter. Female three-quarter frontal portraitPortrait of a girl Anna Amalia Horst, 1740. Unknown artist. Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.Titian (Italian, c. 1490-1576), Portrait of a Lady, c. 1555, oil on canvasPortrait of Aertje Witsen (1599-1652). Dating: 1626. Measurements: support: h 18.5 cm × w 14.8 cm; d 4.3 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: David Bailly.Portrait of the Infanta Margaret Theresa (1651-1673) in a white Dress, Velàzquez, Diego (1599-1660)Martha Temple, Lady Penyston (1595-1620), Cornelius Johnson, 1593-1661, British, 1619, Oil on panel, Support (PTG): 29 x 26 inches (73.7 x 66 cm), bird, collar, Cornish chough, costume, earrings, gold, Jacobean, lace, oval, portrait, red, Tudor, white (color), womanThe Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, Louise Elisabeth of France, and her daughter, Princess Isabelle of Parma - Jean-Marc Nattier, 1750Portret damy w szarosrebrzystej sukni. unknown, painterDeborah Hall William Williams (American, 1727-1791, active in America 1746-1776). Deborah Hall, 1766. Oil on canvas, 71 3/8 x 46 3/8 in. (181.3 x 117.8 cm). These two full-length portraits were painted in two colonial American cities Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lima, Peru. Despite that distance, they share a formality of pose and an emphasis on fine costume, grand setting, and symbolic details that reveal their common source in European portrait models. The enclosed gardens, for example, suggest the chaste purity of the sitters. The two portraitists practiced under dramatically different circumstances. The Lima painter operated within a guild, modeled on Hispanic royal tradition. The guild specialized in religious art for the Catholic churches in what was then the viceregal capital city of Peru. The selftaught Philadelphia painter served a more modest market (in this case the Quaker community), whose wealth and social ambitions paled in comparison to their South American counterpÉlisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Madame d'Aguesseau de Fresnes, 1789 Madame d'Aguesseau de FresnesLUCRECIA BACCIO DEL FEDE - ESPOSA DEL PINTOR- RENACIMIENTO ITALIANO S XVI. Author: ANDREA DEL SARTO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.José Gutiérrez de la Vega y Bocanegra / 'Allegory of the New Testament'. 1844. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.Head of a Woman, first half 18th century. Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1675-1757). Pastel; sheet: 36.6 x 29.1 cm (14 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.); secondary support: 36.6 x 29.1 cm (14 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.); tertiary support: 36.6 x 29.1 cm (14 7/16 x 11 7/16 in.).Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Flemish painter. Portrait of Helene Fourment, second Wife of the artist, 1638. Detail. Art History Museum. Vienna. Austria.Caroline von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, (1721-1774),Flora (mitol.), Hesja (Germany), Hessen und bei rhein, Ernst Ludwig (grossherzog - 1868-1937) - collections, antique, women, flowers, foreign miniatures, Roman mythology, headgear, landscapes, portraits, birds, dresses , rulersUmbria Terni Narni S. Domenico37. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: 1965 photos, 29 Architecture, architectural sculpture (12th century); Wall painting (13-16th century); Mosaic, cosmati style pavement (c. 1200) 1986 photos, 44 Architecture, architectural sculpture, cosmati pavement, sculpture. Post-medieval: 1965 photos, 56 Frescoes, painting (13-16th century); sculpture (14-16th century) 1986 photos 167 Frescoes, painting, sculpture, metalwork Antiquities: 1986 Weaponry Object Notes: Church deconsecrated and modified for use as museum, 1970 General Notes: Bibliographic material sent, Getty Center library () German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, RenaissBox with portrait of a woman ca. 1770-75 Miniature attributed to Johann Heinrich Hurter Swiss The attribution to Hurter was suggested in 1977 by Edwin Boucher. Although the enamel is unsigned, comparison with 32.75.46 appears to justify the attribution (there is, however, no record of a visit by Hurter to Denmark).. Box with portrait of a woman 193819Rafael Tegeo Diaz (1798-1856). Spanish painter. Young Girl seated in a Landscape, 1842. Oil on canvas, 111 x 81,5 cm. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain.Portrait of Margaret, Lady Oxenden by Hudson, Thomas (1701-1779) / Art Gallery of New South Wales / c. 1755 / Great Britain / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 151,7x127 / RococoFrancisco de Goya / "Portrait of María Luisa de Palma (detail)", 1800, Painting. Museum: Museo Víctor Balaguer, Villanueva y Geltrú, Barcelona, Cataluña, España.Portrait of Jacoba Bicker (1640-95), Wife of Pieter Grade, Caspar Network, 1663 painting Portrait of Jacoba Bicker, wife of Pieter de Graeff. Knee piece, standing next to a column. Her family crest on the base of the column. Pendant of SK-A-3977. panel. oil paint (paint)Miss Beatrix Lister. Dated: 1765. Dimensions: overall: 74.9 x 62.2 cm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.) framed: 92.4 x 79.4 cm (36 3/8 x 31 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JOSHUA REYNOLDS.Portrait of a Lady as Saint Agnes. Date/Period: 1580s. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 86.40 mm (3.40 in); Width: 74.90 mm (2.94 in). Author: PAOLO VERONESE.Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis (1725-1802). Louis XVI (1754-1793), king of France, in coronation costume (one of the 46 replicas of the portrait exposed to the fair of 1777). Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 33766-2 Apparat, coronation, costume, royal mantle, portrait, king of France, outfit, oil on canvasAugusta mit ihrem erstgeborenen Sohn Karl Georg August, Gemälde von Angelika Kauffmann, 1767 / Augusta with her firstborn son Karl Georg August, painting by Angelika Kauffmann, 1767, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original artwork from the time / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus der damaligen Zeit, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.Portrait of George II (reigned 1727-60). Culture: Irish, Dublin. Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 23 3/4in. (75.6 x 60.3cm)Framed: 55 × 37 × 6 in. (139.7 × 94 × 15.2 cm). Maker: Weaver John van Beaver (active 1727-50); Workshop of Robert Baillie (active 1727-35) , possibly. Date: 1732-37. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.La Finette, the Delicate Musician, c.1717Caroline von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, (1721-1774), spouse of Ludwig IX Landgrave von Hessen-Darmstadt,"Die grosse Landgrafin". De Carle (fl. ca 1765), painterMaría Teresa (1638-1683), Infanta of Spain 1651-54 Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) Spanish The daughter of King Philip IV of Spain, María Teresa became the presumptive heir to the throne in 1646. Princely suitors from around Europe were keen to have a portrait of the young infanta as she reached marriageable age. Originally bust length but subsequently cut down and then reenlarged at the bottom, this likeness of María Teresa wearing a wig with butterfly ribbons may have served as a model for Velázquez's assistants to copy as they met the demand for official portraits of the young princess. Few, however, could approximate the brilliant flicker of his brush, so evident here. In 1660 the infanta married Louis XIV, her first cousin, becoming queen of France.. María Teresa (1638-1683), Infanta of Spain 437870Saint Ursula. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1650. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.Cesarzowa Maria Teresa Habsburg jako wdowa z miniaturą Franciszka I, córka Karola VI i Elżbiety von Brauschweig-Wolfenbuttel (1717-1780). unknown, painterPortrait Of Miss Catherine Eld, 1767 By Francis Cotes, Oil Painting, Women, Portrait, Female, UrnMarie-Adelaïde of France as Diana, Nattier, Jean-Marc, 1745.England, London, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, Painting of Madame de Pompadour (Mistress of Louis XV) by Francois-Hubert Drouais dated 1763Portrait of a young lady in blue, by Francois Hubert Drouais (1727-1775), pastel on paper.Woman Selling Herrings, Godfried Schalcken, 1675 - 1680 painting The herring saleswoman. A young woman, halfway, holds a herring up in her left hand, a wooden bucket on the right. panel. oil paint (paint) adult woman. selling. bony fishes: herring. merchant, salesman - BB - women engaged in trade and commerceA young Woman with a Parrot, Ary de Vois, 1660 - 1680 painting A young woman sitting with a basket with fruit on a tree under a tree gives a grape to a parrot. panel. oil paint (paint) fruit. ornamental birds: parrot. adult woman. adolescent, young woman, maidenPortrait of a Young Woman. Portrait of a smiling young woman. Bust in oval, right.'Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna'. 1822. Dimensions: 240x147 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: GEORGE DAWE.fine arts, Makart, Hans, (1840 - 1884), painting, ""The falconer"", circa 1880, oil on canvas, 106,3 x 79,9 cm, New Pinakothek, Munich,The Stolen Kiss by Jean Honoré Fragonard. Fragonard (1732 - 1806) was a French painter and printmaker of the late Rococo mannerPortrait of a Woman, Traditionally Identified as the Countess of Arundel. Date/Period: 1619. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 737 mm (29.01 in); Width: 660 mm (25.98 in). Author: CORNELIS JANSSENS VAN CEULEN.A Blonde Woman. Date/Period: Ca. 1520. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 77.5 cm (30.5 in); Width: 64.1 cm (25.2 in). Author: Palma Vecchio (Jacopo Nigretti).James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1765), Louisa Maria Theresa Stuart (1692-1712), 1695, (1915). Artist: Nicolas de LargilliereThe Lacemaker. Dated: c. 1925. Dimensions: overall: 44.5 x 40 cm (17 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) framed: 67.3 x 61.9 x 9.5 cm (26 1/2 x 24 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Imitator of Johannes Vermeer.Lucretia, 1666, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, 43 3/8 x 36 5/16 in. (110.17 x 92.28 cm) (canvas)59 1/4 x 52 5/16 x 4 1/2 in. (150.5 x 132.87 x 11.43 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, Netherlands, 17th century, Rembrandt tells the story of Lucretia through her solemn and saddened gaze, in the traces of blood on her gown, and the dagger in her hand. The wife of a Roman nobleman, Lucretia was known for her loyalty and virtue. She was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of the ruling tyrant. Lucretia revealed the crime to her husband and father, and, in their presence, took her own life. She chose death in order to prevent dishonor, at a time and place when a womans perceived virtue was more valuable than her life.Empress Catherine II by Dmitri Grigorievich Levitsky, oil on canvas, 1780s, 1735-1822, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 110x76,8Portrait of Young Woman by Willem Drost, 1654, Wallace Collection, London, United KingdomMarie-Louise von Austria born December 12, 1791 in Vienna in Parma, actually Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Therese Josepha Lucia, Archduchess of Austria, from 1817 also Maria Luigia Dasburgo-Lorena, Duchessa di Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla, was the daughter of Maria Theresia of Bourbon-Sicily and Franz II./I. , Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not StatedCatherine II in mourning by Meytens, Martin, van (1695-1770)/ Private Collection/ 1760s/ Holland/ Oil on canvas/ Rococo/ 81,9x113,7/ PortraitAnonymous. Portrait of Madame de Sévigné (1626-1696), from a bust of Chatrousse. Oil on canvas. 1801-1900. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 76082-31 Bust, writer, writer, woman of letters, french, french, oil on canvas, featherMaria Teresa, Infanta of Spain, Diego Velazquez, 1653-1654, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North AmericaPortrait of a Woman. Artist: Frans Hals (Dutch, Antwerp 1582/83-1666 Haarlem). Dimensions: 39 3/8 x 32 1/4 in. (100 x 81.9 cm). Date: ca. 1650, reworked probably 18th century.The picture dates from about 1650 and originally had a neutral background, as in the Marquand Portrait of a Man (91.26.9). In the 1660s or later the work was modernized by repainting the background; the monumental architecture in particular is unsympathetic to the figure's friendly gaze and natural pose. The paint surface is worn and has been flattened by lining. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Francesca Gommi Maratti, In 1700 Carlo Maratti's wife died, allowing him to marry his longtime lover Francesca Gommi, who had modeled for the artist since the 1670s and was the mother of his only child Faustina, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century original. Grand Duchess Elena Pawlowna with her daughter Maria, 1830. Oil on canvas. Karl Brüllow 17991852, Russian painter. Friederike Charlotte Marie 18071873, daughter of Württemberg, married Grand prince Michael in 1824.Portrait of a Gentleman, Samuel Finney, 1718-1798, British, undated, Watercolor on ivory, Image: 1 1/4 x 1 inches (3.2 x 2.5 cm) and Frame: 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 x 1/8 inches (4.4 x 3.8 x 0.3 cm), man, oval, portraitHendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 1660.Elizavetta Tcherevina by Grigori Ostrouski 1780London, Dickinson & Watson, Gardner, Daniel, Dickinson, William, Mrs. Gwynne and Mrs. Bunbury, in the characters of Merry Wives of Windsor, Portrait of Mary Gwyn and Catherine Bunbury, verso - stamped, The two ladies are dressed as characters from the play 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' written by William Shakespeare., print, prints, height 304 mm, width 279 mm, English, 1746 - 1823, print maker, printmaker, 1780 - 1780, paper, mezzotint, 1750 - 1805-08-07, after, after a painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, British, publisherVictoria (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain from 1837. Victoria in here coronation robes. Artist, Sir George Hayter.Portrait of a Lady as the Magdalen. Giovanni Pedrini Giampietrino (c.1520-1540). Oil on panel, 64.9 x 49cm.Doña María de la Luz Padilla y Gómez de Cervantes Miguel Cabrera (Mexican, 1695-1768). Doña María de la Luz Padilla y Gómez de Cervantes, ca. 1760. Oil on canvas, 43 x 33 in. (109.2 x 83.8 cm). Portraits of Pan-American Privilege These womens ancestors were among the first European colonizers of the Americas. Some of those colonists crossed the Atlantic to serve the global ambitions of the various crowns of Europe, and others came as economic and religious refugees from Spain, England, and the Dutch Republic. By the eighteenth century, fabulous fortunes had been amassed throughout the region, reflected here in the European-inspired dress and jewelry worn by three privileged Americans. Miguel Cabrera, eighteenth-century Mexicos premier painter, portrayed Doña María de la Luz wearing imported silk brocade and five chiqueadores, or glued false beauty spots. Bostons leading portraitist, John Singleton Copley, painted the monarchist Abigail Pickman Gardiner sporting an uncorseted dress—