Beau Brummell
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George Bryan "Beau" Brummell was an English socialite who influenced British men's fashion during the Regency era. He was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the
Brummell, engraved from a miniature portrait
Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Brummel Children, 1780s. George is the younger.
1793 painting of the 10th Light Dragoons, the regiment Brummell served in
1805 caricature of Brummell by Robert Dighton
Dandy
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A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, refined language and leisurely hobbies. A dandy could be a self-made man both in person and persona, w
Beau Brummell
…refuge in France. Eventually, he died from complications of neurosyphilis in Caen. Brummell was remembered afterwards as the preeminent example of the dandy, and a whole literature was founded upon his manner and witty sayings, which have persisted until today. His name is still associated with style and…
Parisian costumes: The dandies of Paris in 1831.
In The Dandies' Holy of Holies: a man scans an over-sized edition of the novel Pelham: Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman (1828), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The illustration, by E. J. Sullivan, is from an 1898 edition of the novel Sartor Resartus (1831), by Thomas Carlyle.
The French Dandy: The symbolist poet Robert de Montesquiou (Giovanni Boldini).