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24 Downton Abbey
Crawley Family Portraits.
This is my set for round 19 at 20inspirations. I've gone with portraiture as my overall theme, so these have been inspired by styles such as the Grand Manner and artists like Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, moving towards gratuitous Edwardian glamour inspired by John Singer Sargent. I've used actual paintings as backgrounds on nearly all of these, and listed their artists/titles in the absurdly pretentious notes. ♥
1-5
6-10
11-15
16-20
01. I spent a while trying to find some good interior portraits to use as backgrounds for Violet, because clearly she'd never approve of gadding around in fields to get her portrait painted. This one is Mrs Edward L. Goetz by John Singer Sargent.
02. Thomas Paine by Laurent Dabos.
03. Catherine, Lady Bampfylde by Joshua Reynolds. This looks less painted then I planned, but I tried to make Cora's portrait queenly and stately but also warm and autumnal, and all the more painted-looking ones I made for her were oversaturated messes, so I chose this one instead.
04. Mrs Ralph Curtis by John Singer Sargent. I totally failed at making this look painted, but JSS' portraits kind of look like Vogue fashion shoots for Edwardian aristocrats, so... still some inspiration there?
05. I made this before I got into a classic painting + Downton Abbey groove, but I'm still pretty happy with how painted it looks so I put it in the set. Text is from The Dinner Party by Amy Lowell.
06. Lady Charlotte, Countess Talbot by Joshua Reynolds. I wanted to make something dramatic and passionate for Mary to contrast with the next icon, so this happened. With a statue of Athena in the background to ~symbolise Mary being the fiercest of them all, basically.
07. Empress Elisabeth by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. I ♥ Elisabeth and Mary for having these cool, porcelain facades concealing all their layers and complexities, so I enjoyed making this one.
08. The Hon. Mrs Thomas Graham by Thomas Gainsborough. Text from Last Lines by Emily Bronte.
09. Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth. Poor Edith, all dressed up and nowhere to go in a teeny miniature portrait frame.
10. Clarissa by John Everett Millais.
11. Philip Sansom, Jun., as a Child by Richard Westall.
12. Ophelia by John Everett Millais. I wanted Edith's portraits to be mostly about blooming in the darkness, so gloomy tragic Shakespearian flora all round.
13. Landscape: Sheep in a Woodland Glade by Thomas Gainsborough.
14. Classical Landscape by George Lambert.
15. The Brown Boy by Thomas Gainsborough.
16. Juliana, Lady Petre by Thomas Gainsborough. Sybil's portraits are all meant to be woodsy and fresh and dreamy, but apparently she is the most difficult Crawley sister to icon for me. D:
17. Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour by John Singer Sargent.
18. The Earl of Dalhousie by John Singer Sargent. Some neo-classical loftiness for Matthew. I wasn't sure about using decorative text because I thought it would either balance the icon or be very HELL YEAH I'M BRINGING BACK 2005, but eventually I went with Perseus by Sylvia Plath in honour of Matthew and Mary's epic mythological snark.
19. Jane Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford by John Hoppner. This was my attempt at a tinted, gothic kind of portrait inspired by the ES Magazine shoot.
20. A Subject From the Runic Superstitions JMW Turner. Also inspired by the artwork for A Little Night Music, because the hazy Edwardian romantic limbos seemed perfect for Matthew/Mary.
Alts & Extras.
21-24
21. Variant on 05, because I couldn't settle on a poem; text is from Opal by Amy Lowell.
22. The Hon. Mrs Thomas Graham by Thomas Gainsborough.
23. Mrs Ralph Curtis by John Singer Sargent.
24. Lady Georgiana, Lady Henrietta Frances and George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp by Angelica Kauffmann.
Crawley Family Portraits.
This is my set for round 19 at 20inspirations. I've gone with portraiture as my overall theme, so these have been inspired by styles such as the Grand Manner and artists like Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, moving towards gratuitous Edwardian glamour inspired by John Singer Sargent. I've used actual paintings as backgrounds on nearly all of these, and listed their artists/titles in the absurdly pretentious notes. ♥
1-5
6-10
11-15
16-20
01. I spent a while trying to find some good interior portraits to use as backgrounds for Violet, because clearly she'd never approve of gadding around in fields to get her portrait painted. This one is Mrs Edward L. Goetz by John Singer Sargent.
02. Thomas Paine by Laurent Dabos.
03. Catherine, Lady Bampfylde by Joshua Reynolds. This looks less painted then I planned, but I tried to make Cora's portrait queenly and stately but also warm and autumnal, and all the more painted-looking ones I made for her were oversaturated messes, so I chose this one instead.
04. Mrs Ralph Curtis by John Singer Sargent. I totally failed at making this look painted, but JSS' portraits kind of look like Vogue fashion shoots for Edwardian aristocrats, so... still some inspiration there?
05. I made this before I got into a classic painting + Downton Abbey groove, but I'm still pretty happy with how painted it looks so I put it in the set. Text is from The Dinner Party by Amy Lowell.
06. Lady Charlotte, Countess Talbot by Joshua Reynolds. I wanted to make something dramatic and passionate for Mary to contrast with the next icon, so this happened. With a statue of Athena in the background to ~symbolise Mary being the fiercest of them all, basically.
07. Empress Elisabeth by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. I ♥ Elisabeth and Mary for having these cool, porcelain facades concealing all their layers and complexities, so I enjoyed making this one.
08. The Hon. Mrs Thomas Graham by Thomas Gainsborough. Text from Last Lines by Emily Bronte.
09. Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth. Poor Edith, all dressed up and nowhere to go in a teeny miniature portrait frame.
10. Clarissa by John Everett Millais.
11. Philip Sansom, Jun., as a Child by Richard Westall.
12. Ophelia by John Everett Millais. I wanted Edith's portraits to be mostly about blooming in the darkness, so gloomy tragic Shakespearian flora all round.
13. Landscape: Sheep in a Woodland Glade by Thomas Gainsborough.
14. Classical Landscape by George Lambert.
15. The Brown Boy by Thomas Gainsborough.
16. Juliana, Lady Petre by Thomas Gainsborough. Sybil's portraits are all meant to be woodsy and fresh and dreamy, but apparently she is the most difficult Crawley sister to icon for me. D:
17. Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour by John Singer Sargent.
18. The Earl of Dalhousie by John Singer Sargent. Some neo-classical loftiness for Matthew. I wasn't sure about using decorative text because I thought it would either balance the icon or be very HELL YEAH I'M BRINGING BACK 2005, but eventually I went with Perseus by Sylvia Plath in honour of Matthew and Mary's epic mythological snark.
19. Jane Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford by John Hoppner. This was my attempt at a tinted, gothic kind of portrait inspired by the ES Magazine shoot.
20. A Subject From the Runic Superstitions JMW Turner. Also inspired by the artwork for A Little Night Music, because the hazy Edwardian romantic limbos seemed perfect for Matthew/Mary.
Alts & Extras.
21-24
21. Variant on 05, because I couldn't settle on a poem; text is from Opal by Amy Lowell.
22. The Hon. Mrs Thomas Graham by Thomas Gainsborough.
23. Mrs Ralph Curtis by John Singer Sargent.
24. Lady Georgiana, Lady Henrietta Frances and George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp by Angelica Kauffmann.