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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-1798), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq., 1755. Creator: Francis Cotes (British, 1726-1770) .

The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-1798), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq., 1755. A founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the leading fashionable portrait painters of his generation, 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.
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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-1798), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq., 1755. Creator: Francis Cotes (British, 1726-1770) .
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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-1798), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq., 1755. A founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the leading fashionable portrait painters of his generation, 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.
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4041 x 5373 px | 62.1 MB
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34.2 x 45.5 cm | 13.5 x 17.9 in (300 dpi)