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The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.
Description
A founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the leading fashionable portrait painters of his generation, Francis Cotes was a pioneer of pastel painting in England. Here, in her marriage portrait, the young Lady Mary Radcliffe is regal in a Turkish-inspired, peacock blue mantle decorated with gold and trimmed with ermine. Pearls and feathers adorn her hair and a décolleté scarlet bodice reveals an expanse of porcelain skin.
Provenance
Colonel Herbert Hall Mulliner [1861-1924], Birmingham; (sale, Christie's, London, July 18, 1924, no. 2); (P. & D. Colnaghi, London); (sale, Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, April 27, 1937, no. 148); (A. Seligmann & Rey, Paris, sold to Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH); Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dimensions
60.7 × 45.7 cm
Movement / Period
Accession No
1946.463
Official Citations
Curatorial Affinity Stream
Continuing the Universe of Francis Cotes (British, 1726–1770)
Drawings • England, 18th century • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries
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