Clothing, power and portraiture
about 3 months ago (02/12/2024)
Clothing, power and portraiture | Article | Royal Academy of Arts Caption toggle button Clothing, power and portraiture By Richard Drayton Published on 29 January 2024 Historian Richard Drayton decodes the potent messages behind the clothing worn in late 18th-century portraits. From the Winter 2023 issue of RA Magazine , issued quarterly to Friends of the RA . Barely 20, John Singleton Copley, the Boston-born future Academician, received the extraordinary commission to paint the daughters of Isaac Royall Jr.