Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a blue and pink dress, in a landscape

細節

George Romney Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal
Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a blue and pink dress, in a landscape
oil on canvas
47 x 39¼ in. 119.4 x 99.7 cm.

來源

by descent in the family of the sitter; Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1984, lot 31.
with Colnaghi, New York.

展覽

New York, Colnaghi, The British Face: A View of Portraiture 1625-1850, 1 May-7 June 1986, pp. 62-63, no. 22, illustrated.

拍場告示

Please note that the title should read Portrait of a lady, identified as Mary Corrance, half-length, in a blue and pink dress, in a landscape

拍品專文

Mary Corrance was the youngest daughter of Major John Corrance (1711-1804) of Roughan, a distinguished veteran of the battles of Dettingen, Fountenoy and Culloden. She married Snowden White, M.D., of Newton Flotman, Norfolk. She died in 1836.

The present work is an excellent example of Romney's early style and is datable to the late 1760s or early 1770s, before his sojourn in Italy. It shows the artist's interest in the paradigms for fashionable portraiture that were formulated by Reynolds and his followers. Romney's talent with young and elegant sitters is already pronounced and his handling of the soie changeant of Miss Corrance's dress is highly accomplished.