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.
Object Information
Date Created:
1755
Local ID:
1946.463
Collection:
DR - British
Provenance:
?-1924 Colonel Herbert Hall Mulliner [1861-1924], Birmingham 1924 (sale, Christie's, London, July 18, 1924, no. 2) after 1924-by 1937 (P. & D. Colnaghi, London) 1937 (sale, Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, April 27, 1937, no. 148) 1937 (A. Seligmann & Rey, Paris, sold to Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH) 1937-1946 Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1946- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Credit Line:
Gift of Edward B. Greene
Dimensions:
60.7 x 45.7 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.)
Creator(s):
Francis Cotes (1726-1770)
Materials:
Pastel on laid paper lined with canvas
Cultural Attribution:
British
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Painting
Rights:
Cleveland Museum of Art