The women on this photographe
are making great impression on me
These are three strong looking women
If these are the Bronte Sisters
I would like it very much
Much more then the ladies on the painting belowe
These pastel coloured ladies
are they able to write
stories like
Wuthering Heights ans Jane Eyre?
The women on the top
looks like they
have dare and they have power
But are these the Bronte sisters?
What makes me doubt the most
is the hat of ""Emily""
These kind of hats
women were wearing in a later period
it is said Charlotte had a square face
This "Charlotte" doesn't
I am not an expert on issues like
fashion and photographe
I will ask
Abigail
from Abigails Ateliers
What are her ideas
She has a lot of knowledge
about fashion of different periods.
about fashion of different periods.
I agree Geri, that the photograph is much more convincing than the 'pastel painiting', and as for Emily, I think Charlotte's observance that her sister looked greatly like George Henry Lewes is spot on as the image of him on shown for comparison on the The Bronte Sisters Photo website really looks like the Emily in Branwell's painting. Also, both Anne and Emily seem to have more protruding mouths and arched eyebrows in Branwell's painting as well...that's why the Lewes image is so amazingly like Emily.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenLoved reading your thoughts...
xo J~
Hi Kluerrick,
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThe portrait is not a pastel, its a very fine watercolour.
You ask the most pertinent question- one I always use when looking at supposed portraits, like the Bronte museum's photo of contented, chubby, mid 40's Ellen Nussey- or the 'bonnet' pastel, a street-artist's formulaic souvineer sketch of the mousey-faced Elizabeth Gaskill. I'm sorry you would prefer the photo to be 'them' than the 1838 portrait, but in fact they are the same girls. Concerning power, I defy you to take a strong glass and outstare 'Charlotte' in the Landseer portrait- read her description in 'The Letter'.
Beantwoorden, the eyebrows in Branwells and the 1838 portrait are entirely the same- notice Anne has angular 'handlebar' eyebrows- when talking of mouth protrusions you overlook the most profound and distinctive fact known about Emily's appearance- she had protruding front teeth, as 'inexplicably?' detailed in Landseer's portrait. That and Charlotte's facial asymetry, chivalrously disguised by Landseer with the unusual tilt of her head is inescapable evidence. George Richmond adopted a similar technique in 1850, perhaps with Charlotte's help.
Have you ever wondered why she loathed being in his conceited company? There is lot's more to be discovered about the Brontes 4.
V.best wishes, James Gorin von Grozny
Not for a moment would I believe Emily Jane Bronte would sit for a portrait for any artist besides her brother and certainly not in later life when she wanted to stay unknown . She would even run out of the kitchen when the butcher's boy made a delivery .
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIf an artist this important had painted them, we would know about it...just as we know about Richmond's portrait ( which only Geo. Smith could get CB to do ) CB was much shorter than her sisters...does one see that reflected in these picture?
The photo is plainly taken in the 1860's and as I have said else where, the Bronte girls were never so richly dressed. Those girls looked like wealthy Mill owners daughters. Charlotte better dressed herself only after coming out of mourning for Anne. Some one wrote " Bronte sisters" on the back in a fit of whimsy imo that does not make it so.