period makeups: seventeenth-century England
Unlike the sixteenth century no one face haunts us from the seventeenth century. But for English characters the screen has been dominated by the mistresses of king Charles II.
And yes I do know that Queen Anne actually reigned at the begining of the eighteenth century but in many ways the eighteenth century in the UK can be considered as begining with the arrival of the Hanoverians in 1715. Of course, an argument could also be made for beginning the new century with the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688; while I regard that event as little more than a coup, it does provide an end-stop which marks the final settlement of the convulsions of that century.
As with other period makeup sub-sections the characters shown here are an indiscriminate mixture of real persons and fictional characters. Also ordinary people are heavily under-represented: fashion was largely a matter for the rich.