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Portrait of Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith Elphinstone, née Thrale (1764–1857), three-quarter-length, in a red dress and blue wrap, with a turban, her left hand on a sculpted box on a table, before a green curtain
Details
Circle of George Sanders (Scottish 1774-1846)
Portrait of Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith Elphinstone, née Thrale (1764–1857), three-quarter-length, in a red dress and blue wrap, with a turban, her left hand on a sculpted box on a table, before a green curtain
oil on canvas
50 ½ x 40 in. (128.3 x 101.6 cm.)
Portrait of Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith Elphinstone, née Thrale (1764–1857), three-quarter-length, in a red dress and blue wrap, with a turban, her left hand on a sculpted box on a table, before a green curtain
oil on canvas
50 ½ x 40 in. (128.3 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Harold Mitchell, Bt., and thence by descent.
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