17C Princesses at the Spanish court Dressed like their Mothers by Velazquez 1599–1660

1653 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita.

Diego Velázquez Recorded a nuanced, even anxious, royal view of childhood in his paintings in Spain of the princesses, children dressed as adultss

1654 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita.

1656 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita.

1659 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita in a Blue Dress.

1650 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish painter, from 1599 to 1660) The Infanta Margarita (Perhaps finished by Mazo Detail

1656 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Las Meninas or The Maids of Honor. Detail In Las Meninas, the 5-year-old Infanta Margarita Teresa stands looking at us, Accompanied by her ladies in waiting (meninas) & amp; 2 dwarves, while works were Velázquez portrait of her parents, the King & amp; queen. The Infanta looks out of the painting at her relatives (who are standing where the spectator of the painting stands) she is performing. And she is under pressure to look & amp; act like an adult princess. She will never be a child.

Velazquez, a precocious artistic genius, got his start painting tavern scenes his native town of Seville. At age of 24, Philip IV appointed Diego as Spain's court painter, a position he held for the rest his life.

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Women Food Vendors on the Streets of London

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Cheese and Cream

If you were about to sail across the Atlantic for the British American colonies from 1640 London, these are a few street vendors you may have encountered on the way to the wharf.  Diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was interested in the street vendors depicted in a variety of Cries of London images.  He collected these prints which still exist in his library, some 3,000 volumes, preserved at Cambridge. These images are believed to date from aroung 1640.  Pepys described them as “A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use.”

 1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Artichokes

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Flounders

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Hot Codlinges

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Kitchen Stuff

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Mackerel

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Mussels

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Onions

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Oranges and Lemons

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Radishes and Lettuce

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Smelts

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Oysters

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Women with their Families but Few seem Happy...

1605 Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos (1578-1631) (El Greco's Son) The Family of El Greco

c 1615 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Self-Portrait with Parents, Brothers, & Sisters

1616 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) The Artist with the family of his Father in Law Adam van Noort

1620 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish Baroque painter, 1577-1640) Lady Arundel with her Train

1628 After Gerard van Honthorst (1590–1656) George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Catherine Manners, Duchess of Buckingham, children, Mary & George

Pieter Codde (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1599-1678) A Man & Woman & Boy Detail

1629 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Deborah Kip and her Children

1636 Petrus Troueil Sir Francis Ottley (1600–1649), and Family

c 1639 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Rubens with His Wife Helena Fourment and Their Son Peter Paul

1640 After artist Robert Walker, Alexander Popham, his wife Letitia Care, and Children Essex, Letitia, and Anne

Barent Fabritius (Dutch artist, 1624-1673) Willem van der Helm with his Wife and Son

1640 Cornelius Johnson (Flemish-born English Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1661) Lord Arthur Capel of Hadham (1608-1649) & wife Elizabeth Morrison & Family

1640s Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group

1641 Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, with his wife and daughter

1647 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group in a Landscape

1650-55 Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) The De Goyer Family & Painter

1650 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Portrait of a Family

1653-54 Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681) The van Moerkerken Family

1655-60 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group

1659-60 Mary Beale (née Cradock) (26 March 1633 - 1699) was an English portrait painter with husband and son both named Charles.

1660 Johan le Ducq (1629-1676) The Loth Family

1660 Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo (1610-1667) The Artist’s Family

1661 Peter Thijs (1624-1677) Philips van de Werve and His Wife

1663 Jakob Ochtervelt (1635-1710) Dutch Family Portrait

1664 Daniel Schultz II (1615-1683) Family Portrait

1664 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group

1664 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) Gentleman with his 2 Daughters

1665-70 Abraham van den Temple (1620-1672) Family Portrait

1670 Jean Nocret (1617-1672) Family of Louis XIV Château de Versailles

1673 John Michael Wright (1617-1694) Family of Sir Robert Vyner

1675 Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Jan Jacobsz Hinlopen and His Family

1695 John Baptist de Medina (Southern Netherlandish-English painter, 1660-1710) John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (1625-1697), posing with his wife Jane & children & children's spouses.

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.