The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.
Francis Cotes
1755
- Medium
- pastel on laid paper lined with canvas
- Dimensions
- Image: 60.7 x 45.7 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.)
- Genre
- drawing
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
England, 18th century
About
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.
