Penelope Boothby
Penelope Boothby
Penelope Boothby was a girl who has become one of the most famous child characters in British art. Her image inspired the paintings by Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, John Everett Millais, a sculpture by Thomas Banks, photographs of Lewis Carroll, sonnet of Brooke Boothby. According to art historians and historians, in the art of the 19th-20th centuries Penelope Boothby became a classic child of the Romantic era, the keeper of heavenly innocence, a symbol of “what we have lost and what we are afraid to lose”. The image of Penelope was actively exploited by popular culture throughout the 20th century.
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Female
Birth Place
United Kingdom, England
Date of Death
January 1st, 1791
Died Aged
-179
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