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Anne Ford (actor)
Anne or Ann Ford, or Ann Thicknesse (Mrs Philip Thicknesse, 22 February 1737 – 20 January 1824) was an 18th-century English musician and singer, famous in her time for a scandal that attended her struggle to perform in public. Life and music Ford was born in 1727. Her father, who worked in the law courts, claimed to have spent hundreds of pounds on her education which included private lessons by the celebrated actor and singer Susanna Cibber and elocution lessons by Thomas Sheridan. She gained more education than most as she had a knowledge of five foreign languages and she played several fretted string instruments, including the lute-like English guitar and the viola da gamba, comparable to a modern cello. She performed with others giving Sunday concerts at her house, although her father, Thomas Ford, refused to allow her to perform publicly. She was a singer with a beautiful voice by her early twenties, but her earliest attempts to appear in public venues were unsuccessful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Ann Ford
''Portrait of Ann Ford'' is a 1760 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough of the musician and singer Ann Ford. He depicts Ford at full-length, sitting cross-legged while looking to the right. She is holding a guitar with one hand and stroking her hair with the other. Gainsborough had moved to Bath the previous year, producing portraits of inhabitants and visitors to the fashionable spa town. The painting had the aim of promoting both Ford's career and his growing reputation as a portraitist. Two years later Ford married Gainsborough's friend the travel writer Philip Thicknesse. Today the painting is in the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ....''The Collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum''. The Museum, 2000. p.193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century English Women Musicians
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century English Women Musicians
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in Society, human society and the Natural environment, environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, History of slavery, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russian Empire, Russia and Qing dynasty, China. Western world, Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
