ALLAN RAMSAY (1713-1784) A Lady in a Pink Silk Dress (c.1762) Oil on canvas (76 x 64 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA Allan Ramsay's portrait of a young woman leaning pensively on a parapet and looking wistfully out at the viewer is one of his most striking and moving works. Combining a …
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Mary Little
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788) Mary Little, later Lady Carr (1763) Oil on canvas (127 x 101 cm) Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This painting may have been commissioned to celebrate the marriage of Mary Little to Robert Carr, who …
Lady Le Despencer
SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY (1753-1839) Elizabeth Eliot, Lady Le Despencer (1795-97) Oil on canvas (63 x 48 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Few artists of his generation probed more subtly the characters of their sitters than William Beechey. Born in Burford, …
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