Breathtaking Vivien Leigh as Emma Hamilton in That Hamilton Woman 1941 🤍
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"She read voraciously -- especially biographies -- Josephine Bonaparte, Lady Emma Hamilton, Marie Antoinette, and Eleonora Duse -- bold women who invented themselves, seized control of their image; women whose personalities defined the age they lived in and glittered out from the past.
"She was fascinated," said Amy (Greene), "by women who had made it." Sometimes Amy found her sitting on the stairs, gazing at a portrait of Lady Hamilton, a coal miner's daughter who launched herself into the highest echelon of 18th-century society. Then she discovered Josephine and scooped up every book she could find about her, chattering at dinner about the empress and her friends. She regaled them with stories about Juliette Recamier, a brainy beauty who comissioned a nude statue of herself. When Juliette's breasts began to age she smashed the girlish marble ones -- controlling her image just like Marilyn."
- Elizabeth Winder, Marilyn in Manhattan. Her Year of Joy
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842)
Life Study of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sybil, 1792
The Met Museum
Emma Hamilton (1765–1815) rose from the lowest rank of society to the peak of distinction by marrying, in 1791, Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. There she was famous for her “attitudes”—tableaux vivants performed before swooning audiences who felt themselves transported back to antiquity.
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842), Emma Hamilton as a Bacchante, 1792; Lady Lever Art Gallery.
"Dame Emma Hamilton (b. Amy Lyon; 1765 - 1815), generally known as Lady Hamilton, was an English maid, model, dancer and actress. She began her career in London's demi-monde, becoming the mistress of a series of wealthy men, culminating in the naval hero Lord Nelson."
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Emma, Lady Hamilton performed her classically-inspired 'attitudes' from 1787 to audiences of invited guests in Naples, where her husband Sir William was British Envoy. In 1794 the attitudes were the subject of a set of engravings by Tommaso Piroli, here printed on ochre prepared paper to echo the Greek vase paintings on which Lady Hamilton based her act. Piroli’s prints (and implicitly Lady Hamilton, by then resident back in London) were mocked by James Gillray in an 1807 series showing the renowned beauty as an ungainly frump. Both sets were purchased by the future George IV, the Pirolis from Colnaghi in 1816, the satires from Hannah Humphrey on publication in 1807.
Guys, he bought the satires first. You cannot convince me that Prinny bought them because he thought they made Emma Hamilton look like "an ungainly frump". He probably thought she looked amazing.
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Emma Hamilton in the Image of Spinner by George Romney (1782)
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Emma Hamilton (née Amy Lion, 1765-1815)
"The Queen is not yet come. She sent me as her Deputy; for I am very popular, speak the Neapolitan language, and [am] consider'd, with Sir William, the friend of the people".
The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents (1894)
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Emma And Nelson
By: Frank Moss Bennett 1943
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Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Lady Hamilton and Horatio Nelson in That Hamilton Woman 1941 ⛲️
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Gavin Hamilton (Scottish, 1723 - 1798)
Portrait of Emma Hamilton as Sibyl, c. 1786
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