Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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This piece is called Pope Makes Love To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by William Frith. It’s a painting of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the famous English poet Alexander Pope. Mary was an amazing poet in her own right, but she is perhaps best known as the person that brought smallpox inoculation/variolation to England.
This painting captures the exact moment the two friends became bitter enemies. Imagine a rejection so bad, it was still relevant a century after the events allegedly took place. When Frith presented this piece at the Royal Academy, people hated it. Alexander Pope was already seen as one of the greatest English poets and everyone thought this painting was a slap in the face to his legacy.
#classicart #art #arthistory #fineart
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Mary’s commode quote taken from Evidence in literary scholarship : essays in memory of James Marshall Osborn
Fire and lightning effect from vecteezy
Go behind the painting with Art Deco at BehindThePainting.com
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This piece is called Pope Makes Love To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by William Frith. It’s a painting of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the famous English poet Alexander Pope. Mary was an amazing poet in her own right, but she is perhaps best known as the person that brought smallpox inoculation/variolation to England.
This painting captures the exact moment the two friends became bitter enemies. Imagine a rejection so bad, it was still relevant a century after the events allegedly took place. When Frith presented this piece at the Royal Academy, people hated it. Alexander Pope was already seen as one of the greatest English poets and everyone thought this painting was a slap in the face to his legacy.
#classicart #art #arthistory #fineart
Credits:
Mary’s commode quote taken from Evidence in literary scholarship : essays in memory of James Marshall Osborn
Fire and lightning effect from vecteezy
