{"id":5284,"date":"2015-03-31T16:33:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T16:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2015-08-05T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:50:19","slug":"charles-coote-1st-earl-of-bellomont-1738-1800-in-robes-of-the-order-of-the-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/charles-coote-1st-earl-of-bellomont-1738-1800-in-robes-of-the-order-of-the-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, in Robes of the Order of the Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the sitter of this portrait,\u00a0Charles Coote, the Earl of Bellomont (1738-1800)\u00a0 was a member of the\u00a0Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a British order of chivalry, he did not particularly embody the qualities of courtesy, generosity and consideration towards women that we associate with chivalry.\u00a0He was said to be a vain,\u00a0pompous womaniser\u00a0who deserted his wife and acknowledged six illegitimate children by four different mothers in his will.<\/p>\n<p>He was an Irish peer during the eighteenth century and was installed as a Knight of the Bath after quelling a minor uprising. The name for the order\u00a0derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for creating a knight, which included bathing (a symbol of purification)<\/p>\n<p>No other Knight was ever immortalised in such a relaxed pose or actually wearing the Order&#8217;s grand hat with its huge ostrich feathers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SWL-by-Robert-Hough.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6621\" src=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SWL-by-Robert-Hough.jpg\" alt=\"SWL by Robert Hough\" width=\"281\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the sitter of this portrait,\u00a0Charles Coote, the Earl of Bellomont (1738-1800)\u00a0 was a member of the\u00a0Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a British order of chivalry, he did not particularly embody the qualities of courtesy, generosity and consideration towards women that we associate with chivalry.\u00a0He was said to be a vain,\u00a0pompous womaniser\u00a0who deserted his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/charles-coote-1st-earl-of-bellomont-1738-1800-in-robes-of-the-order-of-the-bath\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, in Robes of the Order of the Bath<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}