Artist: Thomas Gainsborough
Date: 1775
Size: 232 x 153 cm
Museum: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisboa, Portugal)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This painting was almost certainly created to mark the marriage of Elisabeth Garth to her cousin, William Lowndes-Stone, on 15 July 1775. The composition broadly follows the conventions of the sophisticated type of full-body portrait introduced to England by Van Dyck in the 1630s, when the master was the official painter to the court of Charles I.The elongated figure wears a salmon-coloured silk dress and a transparent gauze shawl finished off by gold trimming. She is shown
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