{"id":88115,"date":"2023-11-25T18:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T18:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=88115"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T18:45:03","slug":"experts-reveal-17th-century-portrait-had-lips-made-fuller-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/experts-reveal-17th-century-portrait-had-lips-made-fuller-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts reveal 17th century portrait had lips made fuller years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Jacobean Kylie Jenner treatment! Experts reveal how portrait of high society woman in 17th century had lips made fuller and hairline touched up years later as they restore painting to its original condition<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Portrait of Diana Cecil was painted in 1634 by artist Cornelius Johnson<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kylie Jenner&#8217;s penchant for her famously full pout might seem like a very modern phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>She is regularly seen on Instagram showing off her luscious lips to the world.<\/p>\n<p>But conservators at English Heritage have discovered that the reality star&#8217;s facial features are by no means anything new.<\/p>\n<p>Experts who were restoring a painting of Jacobean beauty Diana Cecil found that her lips had been made fuller and her hair given more depth by a mystery restorer years later.<\/p>\n<p>Cecil, who was one of the great beauties of the early 17th century, was the great-granddaughter of William Cecil, one of Queen Elizabeth I&#8217;s closest advisors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/16\/78165763-12784531-image-a-77_1700755357531.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"686\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/16\/78165773-12784531-image-m-76_1700755351885.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"686\"><\/p>\n<p>Experts who were restoring a painting of Jacobean beauty Diana Cecil found that her lips had been made fuller and her hair given more depth by a mystery restorer<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/16\/78165753-12784531-image-a-86_1700756814749.jpg\" height=\"1127\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kylie Jenner &#8216;s penchant for her famously full pout might seem like a very modern phenomenon. She is regularly seen on Instagram showing off her luscious lips to the world<\/p>\n<p>Her newly-restored portrait is going on display next week at neo-classical\u00a0 Kenwood House in North London\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The painting was damaged significantly when it was rolled widthways, which may have resulted in the need for a touch-up.<\/p>\n<p>But the experts were left baffled by the overpainting of Cecil&#8217;s lips and hair.<\/p>\n<p>Conservators have also removed layers of yellowing varnish to reveal Cecil&#8217;s natural colour. She was aged 31 when the depiction was produced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the restoration, the date of the portrait along with the signature of the artist &#8211; Cornelius Johnson &#8211; was found in the corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was originally thought to have been painted in 1638 but the actual date was 1634.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cecil&#8217;s choice of attire &#8211; including a silk dress, the red ribbon across the front of her bodice and the red rose on her breast &#8211; was the height of fashion at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/16\/78165771-12784531-image-a-79_1700756482250.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>English Heritage&#8217;s paintings expert Alice Tate-Harte finishes conserving a painting of 17th-century noblewoman, Diana Cecil<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/16\/78165765-12784531-image-a-80_1700756487763.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The painting is going back on display at Kenwood House in North London from next week<\/p>\n<p>Alice Tate-Harte, collections conservator at English Heritage, said: &#8216;As a paintings conservator I am often amazed by the vivid and rich colours that reveal themselves as I remove old, yellowing varnish from portraits, but finding out Diana&#8217;s features had been changed so much was certainly a surprise!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;While the original reason for overpainting could have been to cover damage from the portrait being rolled, the restorer certainly added their own preferences to &#8220;sweeten&#8221; her face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I hope I&#8217;ve done Diana justice by removing those additions and presenting her natural face to the world.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 1634 portrait is one of two of Cecil that are displayed at Kenwood. The other was painted by artist William Larkin when she was 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both paintings are part of the Suffolk Collection, which was gathered over the course of 400 years by the Earls of Sussex and Berkshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/16\/78165767-12784531-image-a-81_1700756494599.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The painting is part of the Suffolk Collection, which was gathered over the course of 400 years by the Earls of Sussex and Berkshire<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/23\/16\/78165769-12784531-image-a-82_1700756525318.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>During the restoration, the date of the portrait along with the signature of the artist &#8211; Cornelius Johnson &#8211; was found in the corner. It was originally thought to have been painted in 1638 but the actual date was 1634<\/p>\n<p>It was give to the nation in 1974 in the will of Margaret &#8216;Daisy&#8217; Howard, the 19th Countess of Suffolk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cecil was from a powerful noble family. Her first husband was Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He died siege of Breda just a year after their 1624 wedding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cecil went on to marry Lord Thomas Bruce, who later became the 1st Earl of Elgin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cecil&#8217;s sister Elizabeth married Thomas Howard, the 1st Earl of Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p><span>The newly conserved painting of Diana Cecil will go on display next to a portrait of her husband Thomas Bruce, the 1st Earl of Elgin \u2013 at Kenwood, a free site, on Thursday, November 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12784531\/Kylie-Jenner-portait-17th-century-lips-fuller-hairline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacobean Kylie Jenner treatment! Experts reveal how portrait of high society woman in 17th century had lips made fuller and hairline touched up years later as they restore painting to its original condition Portrait of Diana Cecil was painted in 1634 by artist Cornelius Johnson Kylie Jenner&#8217;s penchant for her famously full pout might seem like a very modern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Experts reveal 17th century portrait had lips made fuller years later - Celebrity Tidings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/experts-reveal-17th-century-portrait-had-lips-made-fuller-years-later\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Experts reveal 17th century portrait had lips made fuller years later - Celebrity Tidings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Jacobean Kylie Jenner treatment! 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