Moll Davis

Moll Davis
Lely - Moll Davis1.jpg
Narození1648
Westminster
Úmrtí1708 (ve věku 59–60 let)
Londýn
Povolánízpěvačka, herečka a divadelní herečka
ChoťJacques Paisible (od 1686)[1]
Partner(ka)Karel II. Stuart
DětiMary Tudor
PříbuzníJames Howard, Robert Howard, Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire a Edward Howard (sourozenci)
James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater[2], Francis Radclyffe[2], Lady Mary Tudor Radclyffe[2], Charles Radclyffe[2] a Margaret Frances Disney Rooke[2] (vnoučata)
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Moll Davis (1648 Westminster – 1708 Londýn), vlastním jménem Mary Davis, byla anglická herečka a kurtizána, milenka krále Karla II.

Život

Mary 'Moll' Davis byla populární tanečnice, zpěvačka a herečka. Roku 1667, po divadelním představení, se seznámila s Karlem II. Z jejich vztahu se narodila dcera, Lady Mary Tudor (1673–1726). Její rivalkou v králově přízni byla Nell Gwyn (1650–1687), která nakonec docílila toho, že Karel vztah s Moll ukončil.[zdroj?] Moll pobírala poté rentu 1000 liber a užívala dům v Londýně.

V premiéře opery Venuše a Adonis od Johna Blowa roku 1681 v Oxfordu hrála roli Venuše. Roli Kupida hrála její dcera, tehdy devitiletá.

V prosinci 1686 se Moll Davisová provdala za francouzského muzikanta a skladatele Jacquse Paisiblea (asi 1656-1721). Manželé se připojili k exilovému dvoru Jakuba II. v Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ale v roce 1693 se vrátili do Anglie, kde se Paisible stal skladatelem u prince Jiřího, manžela Anny Stuartovny, dědičky trůnu.[3]

Galerie

  • Peter Lely, Moll Davis, kolem 1665

    Peter Lely, Moll Davis, kolem 1665

  • Peter Lely, Moll Davis, kolem 1665

    Peter Lely, Moll Davis, kolem 1665

  • Mary Beale, Moll Davis, 1675

    Mary Beale, Moll Davis, 1675

Reference

V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku Moll Davis na německé Wikipedii.

  1. ↑ Dostupné online. [cit. 2020-08-07]
  2. ↑ a b c d e Darryl Roger Lundy: The Peerage.
  3. ↑ Lasocki, David, Paisible, James [Jacques] (c.1656–1721), composer and recorder player in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004)

Externí odkazy

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Mary Beale - Moll Davis.jpg
Portrait of Mary Moll Davis (fl.1663-1669)
Lely - Moll Davis1.jpg
Portrét Moll Davis (c.1648 - c.1708), milenka of Karel II. Stuart
  • "The present portrait derives from a three-quarter length by Sir Peter Lely which depicts her with the unguent jar of St Mary Magdalen, placing her in the guise of the reformed sinner, as well as providing a witty conceit for the display of a very decolletage. It has not precisely been established whether this mode is employed by Lely and his contemporaries for the portrayal of mistresses alone, but references to the Magdalen occur also in a portrait of Hortense Mancini (the same composition as the present painting) and in a portrait of the lady known as Margaret Hughes (Tate Gallery). The popularity of portraits of Royal mistresses attests to the status that these women enjoyed in their heyday. The occupied a position of remarkable stardom, comparable to the great sex symbols of the twentieth century. Numerous repetitions of their portraits would be commissioned from Lely and thus produced by the artists of his studio, many of whom such as John Greenhill or Nicolas de Largilliere were to become considerable masters in their own right. Sometimes a single image might be reproduced consistently many years after the first appearance of their original. This is particularly true of Lely's paintings of the most popular mistress of them all, Barbara Villiers Duchess of Cleveland. The most eagerly-sought icons in the 1670s and 1680s were still often those based on sittings of the 1660s." [1]
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Portrait of Mrs Moll Davies, mistress of Charles II