Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Date: 1782
Size: 142 x 113 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
In 1781, after a six-week trip to Holland and Flanders, where he evidently went to study the work of Rubens, Reynolds returned to his portrait practice in London with a new appreciation of naturalism. The effect of his study of Rubens can be seen in this portrait of Lady Frances Finch, in which the artist places his sitter, relaxed and comfortable, in a wooded setting with none of the classical allusions that were his trademark. Lady Frances (1761–1838), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Aylesford (1715–1777), was twenty-one at the time the portrait was completed. The final sitting is recorded in March 1782 and by September that same year Lady Frances had married George Legge, Lord Lewisham, and had thus become Lady Lewisham, Countess of Dartmouth. Lady Frances
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