The brothers Lind - two portraits by George Romney

 

Francis Lind, circa 1775-76.

Francis Lind (13 February 1753-1840), British gentleman, he served in the Indian Civil Service. He married his cousin, Ann Cooper, in 1785. In the portrait, Lind is holding a one-keyed Simpson ivory flute. Both the portrait and the flute were retained by the family until the early twentieth century.

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Edward George Lind, 1776.

Edward George Lind (1754-?), British gentleman. He married Elizabeth Ainslie in 1786; she sat for Romney in 1787-88, as did both of her parents.

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The sitters were the sons of Captain Francis Lind of the 14th Regiment of Foot and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Major Montague Farrer. The family seat was Gorgie near Edinburgh, but by the date of the two portraits the Linds were established in Westmorland in the north of England - it's thought that the backgrounds of both paintings are meant to evoke the Lake District - as well at Strafford Place, London. The family's wealth was derived from the drapery business. The portraits were commissioned by the brother's mother.

Fathers and sons

 

Francesco Sassetti and his son Teodoro, by Domenico Ghirlandaio, circa 1488.

Gordon Barnes and his son Graham, Woodford Green, London, unknown photographer, circa 1954.

"Mr. Able" and his son, painted salt print, calotype by Jabez Mayall, painting most likely by Andre Mansion, circa 1855.

 Father and son, unknown artist, formerly attributed to Titian, circa middle of the seventeenth century.

Father and son, by Suzuki Harunobu, circa 1766.

Father and son, 1948.

Father and son, by Cornelis de Vos, 1626.

Father and son, attributed to John Vanderlyn, circa 1825-40.

Coahuilla Indian father and son, Pala, California, by George Wharton James, circa 1905.

Father and son, French School, circa middle of the eighteenth century.

Father and son, English, artist unknown, circa 1600.

Father and son, Germany, circa 1914-18.

Laurence Davidson and his three sons, by Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria, 1850.

Father and son, circa second half of the twentieth century. 

Dirck Van Der Wissel and his son Jacob, by Thomas de Keyser, 1631.

Thomas Hopewell and his son Timothy, by Frank Buchser, 1861.

Father and son, circa 1840-50s.

Jan van de Poll and his son Harmen Hendrick, by Arnold Boonen, circa 1700-1705.

Father and sons, French School (?), circa middle of the eighteenth century.

Father and son, circa first half of the twentieth century.

Father and son, by Jonathan Budington, 1800.

Alexander J. Cassatt and his son Robert, by Mary Cassatt, 1884.

Dock worker with son, New Orleans, by John Vachon, 1943.

Father and three sons, by Bartholomäus Bruyn, circa 1535-45.

Father and son, by Mason Chamberlin, circa 1780

Father and son, circa 1840-50s.

Frederick van Velthuysen and his son Dirck, by Thomas de Keyser, circa 1657-58.

Father and son, 1895.

John Jacob Anderson and his sons, John and Edward, by Joshua Johnson, circa 1812-1815.
(The artist, freed at the age of about nineteenth, is the first African-American recorded as working in this country as a professional artist.)

George Seton, 3rd Earl of Winton, with his sons, George and Alexander, by Adam de Colone, 1625.

 Leopoldo Salcedo and his son Edgar, circa 1947.

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The left hand of my father/la mano izquierda de mi papá, by Stephen O'Donnell, 1997.

Harlow on wheels - a taste of Jean Harlow's automophilia

 

On April 15, 1933, the just-turned twenty-two-year-old Jean Harlow purchased a 1932 Packard Deluxe Eight - "model 903, ninth series eight, 8-cylinder, 135-horsepower, 142.125-inch wheelbase, 4-person sport phaeton (body type number 531), deluxe equipment, radiator stone guard, fender mounted mirrors, and windshield wings"... whatever any of that means - from Thompson Motor Company, located on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, and drove it home. The manufacturer’s retail price for the car was $3,590.00 in 1933, or what would be $73,748.00 today. The photographs above are by studio photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull.

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Posing with other cars.

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