18C Ladies on Horseback Honing their Gamepark Skills

 1710 Elizabeth Cahrlotte d'Orleans, Duchesse de Lorraine by Jean-Baptiste Martin

 1720 Lady on Horseback Unknown artist

 1730s Marie Leczinska Queen of France (1703-1768), riding side saddle on a white horse, the moor attendant with parasol

 1740 James Seymour (British artist, 1702–1752) Princess Amelia Sophia

 1743 Elisabeth I of Russia by Georg Christoph Grooth
 1744 Catherine the Great based on Catherine the Great of Russia while Grand Duchess by Georg Christoph Grooth

 1750 Catherine the Great of Russia after Georg Christoph Grooth

1760 George Stubbs (English artist, 1724-1806) The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt

1762 Catherine II (1729–96) the Great of Russia by Vigilius Erichsen (1722–82)

1769 Johann Zoffany (German-born English painter, 1733-1810) The Drummond Family

1777 George Stubbs (English artist, 1724-1806) John and Sophia Musters Out Riding at Colwick Hall

1780 George Stubbs (English artist, 1724-1806) The Wedgewood Family 

1783 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish painter, 1746–1828) Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain on Horseback (María Teresa de Vallabriga)

 1783 Marie Antoinette in hunting attire by Louis Auguste Brun de Versoix

 1783 Marie Antoinette Riding at Versailles by Brun de Versoix

 1785 José Campeche Dama a caballo

 1789 Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange by Tethart Phillipp Christian Haag

1793  George Stubbs (English artist, 1724-1806) Laetitia, Lady Lade on Horseback 

1799 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish painter, 1746–1828) Maria Luisa,Queen of Spain on Horseback (Maria Louisa of Parma, Queen of Spain) 

17C Family On the Garden Terrace

Michiel van Musscher (1645-1705) A Family Group on a Garden Terrace 1670

17C Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) + a Laurel Plant

Wenceslaus Hollar (Czech artist, 1607-1677) Lady with a laurel plant in an impressive flower pot.

1750 Personification of Spring with a Garden in the background

1750 Spring Published by Robert Sayer London

Here Spring is depicted as a fashionably-dressed young woman with flowers in her hair, picking a rose from a bush on the right, holding others in her apron, She is resting her elbow on a parapet overlooking a garden. In the background, a man is leaning against a garden balustrade and a couple stand in front of a domed garden temple.

1600s Mother & Child in a Walled Garden

1600s Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635). Lady Anne Cotton (nee Hoghton) with her son John posed in a garden  Most mother with children portraits in the 16-17C are posed indoors.  The Renaissance, from the 14-17C, marked a turning point in portraiture. Artists began to paint secular scenes, breaking away from the dominant religious art of medieval painters. Partly out of interest in the natural world & partly out of nostalgia for classical Greece & Rome, portraits became valued as allegorical objects & as depictions of earthly success & status. The period in Europe was the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages & modern history. The relationship between man & nature was evolving as Francis Bacon (1561-1626) promoted man as "the minister & interpreter of nature." Portraits began to depict the wealthy & the middle class in natural landscapes & in more formal garden settings, where man was obviously controlling the nature around him.

18C Ladies dressed for hunting, fowling, & shooting in their Gameparks

1703 Duchess Franziska Sibylla Augusta of Saxony-Lauenburg and her son  Georg Ludwig by Ivenet

 1710 Electoral Princess Amalia Maria Josepha of Bavaria by Franz Joseph Winter 

 1720s Maria Zofia Czartoryska

 1725 Marie Leczinska, Queen of France by Jean Baptiste Martin, l'Ancien

 1727 Eleonore of Schwarzenberg with her son Joseph by Maximilian Hannel

 1745 Grooth - Catherine the Great of Russia

1746 Sophie-Marie, Countess Voss by Pesne

1748 John Wooton (British artist, 1686-1765) Lady Mary Churchill at the Death of the Hare

 1750 Lady in Hunting Costume, German Miniature

 1750 Maria Anna of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria - J A T Jahreszeiten 

1758 Maria Antonia of Fürstenberg by Franz Josef Weiss

 1700s Portrait of a lady from the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg

1700s Portrait of an unknown lady

1770s The Ladies Shooting Poney published by Carington Bowles

1778 Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger published by Carington Bowles

1776 The Sporting Lady published by Sayer & Bennett

 1780 Female Fox Hunter by Collett

1781 Marie Antoinette in hunting attire by Louis Auguste Brun de Versoix

1787 The Countess of Effingham by George Haugh (British artist, 1755-1827)