The Hon. Mary Cathcart, The Hon. Mrs Thomas Graham (1757-1792)
after Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
900 x 700 mm
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Hill Top, Cumbria
NT 642001
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Mary Cathcart, The Hon. Mrs Thomas Graham (1757-1792), after Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788). A half-length portrait of a young woman wearing a pink satin gown with feather head gear; background of dark sky. The full-length original, of which this is a reduced version copy was exhibited at RA in 1777 and is now in the National Gallery of Scotland and there is also another half-length portrait of the same sitter, with a different arrangement of hands, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, possibly painted earlier in about 1775.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Beatrix Potter, Mrs William Heelis in 1944
Makers and roles
after Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), artist British (English) School, artist