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Moroni's period as the fashionable portraitist of Bergamo, nowhere documented but in the inscribed dates of his portraits, is unexpectedly condensed, spanning only the years ca.
William Hoare was the first fashionable portraitist to settle in Bath, and he remained as the leading portraitist there until the arrival of Thomas Gainsborough in 1759.
Reynolds returned from a long visit to Italy in 1753, and very rapidly established himself as the most fashionable London portraitist, and before long as a formidable figure in society, the public leader of the arts in Britain, and in a position to help raise both its quality and status.
Winterhalter found a more congenial mentor in the fashionable portraitist Joseph Stieler ( 1781 – 1858 ).

fashionable and subjects
Out of her distress and self-criticism, Cassatt decided that she needed to move away from genre paintings and onto more fashionable subjects, in order to attract portrait commissions from American socialites abroad, but that attempt bore little fruit at first.
By the Renaissance the mixture of revived classical mythology and Christian subjects was also considered to fall under the heading of decorum, as was the increasing habit of mixing religious subjects in art with lively genre painting or portraiture of the fashionable.
He became a highly successful and fashionable portrait painter, depicting Irish genre subjects ; also scenes from the Western Front in World War I.
He therefore tended to use subjects and environments that were close at hand – landscapes, fashionable Edinburgh New Town house interiors, still life and figures in both oil and watercolour.
Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay, Archbishop Sumner, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Peter Mark Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus.

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Options open to poorer cavalry officers in the various European armies included service with less fashionable ( though often highly professional ) frontier or colonial units.
The therapy Munch received for the next eight months included diet and " electrification " ( a treatment then fashionable for nervous conditions, not to be confused with electroconvulsive therapy ).
He amused the comtesse de Vaux's 200 guests with a parody of Félicien David's currently fashionable Le désert, and in April 1846 gave a concert at which seven operatic items of his own composition were premiered before an audience that included leading music critics.
Later, during the Renaissance, the city benefited from it becoming fashionable for rich châtelains to travel along the val-de-Loire ( a fashion begun by the king himself, whose royal domains included the nearby Chambord, Amboise, Blois, and Chenonceau ).
In Britain, by 1853, invitations to tea among the prosperous and fashionable often included table-turning, a type of séance in which spirits would communicate with people seated around a table by tilting and rotating the table.
Sir Alfred Cooper ( 28 January 1838 – 3 March 1908 ) was a fashionable English surgeon and clubman of the late 19th century whose clients included Edward, Prince of Wales.
Mansion building in Kyoto became fashionable, and eventually included shugo lords like the Shimazu of Kyūshū, who decided to live in Kyoto even though he was not required to do so.
It also became a fashionable place to live, and several impressive mansions were built, the most significant of which included ' Netherhall ', the residence of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, the physicist and engineer.
Messages often included the fashionable slang expressions of the time such as " old man ".
The original New York Social Register first was published in 1886 by Louis Keller, a German-American of wide social acquaintance, who combined the " visiting lists " of a number of fashionable ladies to compile the families included.
By the late 18th century it had become fashionable among the aristocracy and was often included in tonadillas, zarzuelas, ballets and operas, not only in Spain, but also elsewhere in Europe.
One possible cause was a fashionable treatment her dentist father prescribed for her teething pains that included mercury.
His portraits were mostly of middle-class sitters shown with an apparent realism that reflected both sympathy and flattery, and included some in the fashionable form of the conversation piece, recently introduced from France by Philippe Mercier, which was to remain a favourite in Britain, taken up by artists such as Francis Hayman, though usually abandoned once an artist could get good single figure commissions.
Some notable shows over the years have included Locals Only ( a current show featuring bands from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia ), The Columbia Beet ( local bands played live in the studio ), the Red Bank Bar and Grill ( an alternative country program ), The Weekend Kicker ( on Friday afternoons ), Musical Mutiny ( Sunday afternoons 1977-8, a progenitor of experimental / mash-up / sampling /" difficult " sounds ; " Knox Abbott " was doing guerrilla radio about 30 years before it would become fashionable ) and Blast From the Past ( one of the earliest shows to focus on more esoteric music from the 1960s, first aired 1978, featuring groups such as the " Chocolate Watchband " and " Lothar and the Hand People "; a few years after the originator of the show had graduated and moved on, more recent listeners remember his apprentice, Freewheelin ' Frank assuming the role of host ).
After Mary Reiss's marriage to Guy Brian, the family lived in Paris, and Jane graduated from the Convent des Oiseaux, a fashionable Catholic school in Neuilly, France ; its alumni included the future Vietnamese empress Nam Phuong.
During the Edwardian era, or Belle Epoque, the s-shaped figure was fashionable, which included a very narrow waist.
In the book The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Hooman Majd says that Elahieh is one of Tehran's " most fashionable districts " in Tehran, since this area included big gardens and mansions with eye catching architecture designs.

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Some of Offenbach's early compositions were programmed by the fashionable conductor Louis Antoine Jullien.
In 1779, Louis de Rohan succeeded his uncle, Constantine de Rohan-Rochefort, as bishop of Strasbourg, though he spent much of his career working in Paris, as he preferred a fashionable life to his clerical duties ; also in 1779, he became abbot of Noirmoutiers and Chaise-Dieu.
Finding a patron in Marie de Hautefort, maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIII, he became a well-known figure in literary and fashionable society.
A hamlet built between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, it became a fashionable country retreat for French elites during the reign of Louis XV.
He dresses in and uses the most fashionable, expensive clothing and accessories possible ( e. g. Salvatore Ferragamo and Valentino suits, Oliver Peoples glasses and Jean Paul Gaultier, Louis Vuitton and Bottega Veneta leather goods ) as a means of effecting some " control " over his otherwise chaotic life.
This communne it is one of the most expensive and fashionable areas of Santiago, with the most of the world's luxury boutiques are located on Vitacura, which include: Louis Vuitton, Adidas, Armani, Tommy Hilfiger, United Colors of Benetton, Nike, Zara, Swarovski, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ermenegildo Zegna and many more.
The style was brought back to France, where its usage spread to the French population and the royal court of King Louis XIV, who made it fashionable throughout Europe, both as a civilian and military wear.
It is prominently sited between Newbury and Boylston Streets fronting at Berkeley Street, and currently houses fashionable clothier Louis, Boston.
It houses mostly luxury and fashionable shops such as Aigner, Alfred Dunhill, Bally, Brioni, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Chopard, Coach, DKNY, Emilio Pucci, Emporio Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna, Fendi, Frank Muller, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Karen Millen, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Moschino, Paul Smith, Piaget, Prada, Rolex, Salvatore Ferragamo, Stuart Weitzman, Tod's and Versace.
Louis XIV refused to use the fork which had become fashionable in Italy, so the use of forks didn't even begin in France until about 1730.
The resulting high " Louis heels " subsequently became fashionable for ladies.

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Public demand was increased when a similar colour was adopted by Queen Victoria in England and by Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, in France, and when the crinoline or hooped-skirt, whose manufacture used a large quantity of cloth, became fashionable.
However, the lack of a fashionable and formal suite of state apartments coupled with the Brownlows ' lack of social credentials did not prevent a visit from King William III to the newly completed house in 1695.
In 1862 she and her husband built a four-bay townhouse in the newly fashionable brownstone style at 350 Fifth Avenue, the present site of the Empire State Building, next door to her husband's older brother, John Jacob Astor III ; the two families were next-door neighbors for 28 years although the Astor brothers did not get along.
It became especially fashionable during the Second French Empire ( 1852 – 1870 ) of Napoléon III.
The Mark IV carried over most styling motifs from the successful Mark III, including the tall Rolls-Royce-style grille ( even taller on the Mark IV ), the fashionable long-hood short-deck style, covered headlamps, a " spare tire hump " in the trunk, and the taller, knife-edged fender line.
In the 1860s visits by Napoleon III made the coast of Normandy adjacent to Deauville fashionable, and soon speculators developed the infrastructure necessary to accommodate members of the Imperial court and the growing Parisian bourgeoisie.
He attracted the attention of Gustavus III by his eloquent preaching at the fashionable St Clara church at Stockholm.
By the end of the 18th century, sea bathing became highly fashionable with George III visiting Weymouth for the first time with the bathing machines showing God Save the King.

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