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Biographical Catalogue of the Portraits at Panshanger, the Seat of Earl Cowper, K.G.

Chapter 1: BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PORTRAITS AT PANSHANGER THE SEAT OF EARL COWPER, K.G.
By Mary Louisa Boyle
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The volume collects concise biographical sketches of the individuals represented in a country-house portrait gallery, pairing each sitter's life story with descriptions of costume, pose, and artistic attribution. Emphasis is placed on private and domestic details over public offices, and on familial connections and anecdotes that illuminate character. Entries note provenance, artist, and visual features, and occasionally contextualize military, political, or cultural activity when relevant. The overall approach aims to present portraits as living human records rather than mere heraldic or official images.

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Title: Biographical Catalogue of the Portraits at Panshanger, the Seat of Earl Cowper, K.G.

Author: Mary Louisa Boyle

Release date: November 10, 2020 [eBook #63698]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PORTRAITS AT PANSHANGER, THE SEAT OF EARL COWPER, K.G. ***

ARISE ✤ PRAY ✤ WORK

BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE
 
OF THE PORTRAITS AT PANSHANGER
 
THE SEAT OF EARL COWPER, K.G.

BIOGRAPHICAL
CATALOGUE
OF THE PORTRAITS
AT PANSHANGER
THE SEAT OF
EARL COWPER, K.G.
✿

‘A true delineation, even of the smallest man, and his scene of pilgrimage through life, is capable of interesting the greatest man; for all men are to an unspeakable degree brothers, each man’s life a strange emblem of every man’s, and human portraits faithfully drawn are, of all pictures, the welcomest on human walls.’ Carlyle.

LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK
1885.
TO
FRANCIS LORD COWPER
AND
KATRINE CECILIA HIS WIFE,
The Light of her Home,
THESE PAGES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
BY
MARY LOUISA BOYLE.

Michaelmas 1885.