Face Value: The Consumer Revolution and the Colonizing of America by Cary Carson

Author:Cary Carson [Carson, Cary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780813939377
Google: hHn0jwEACAAJ
Goodreads: 30268603
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2017-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 27

Fashionable lookalikes. Portraits of several Charleston gentlewomen borrowed freely from a popular mezzotint of the Duchess of Hamilton, engraved in London in 1751. The painter was Swiss-born Jeremiah Theüs (1716–1774) who launched his long and successful career as Charleston’s resident portraitist by 1740. He painted his patrons’ faces from life, often at home in the city or “at their respective Plantations” if more convenient. Later in his studio he added the dazzling draperies, lace, ribbons, flowers, and jewelry that were inspired—here all but plagiarized—from British print sources. Easel artists endeavored to achieve a balance between sitters’ likenesses and their demeanor, finery, and settings. Theüs’s passion for splendiferous costuming and his one-face-fits-all treatment of individuals suggest that for some Charleston women resembling a duchess was good enough.

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