Portrait of Lady Alston
| Portrait of Lady Alston | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | 1762 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 228 cm × 166 cm (90 in × 65 in) |
| Location | Louvre, Paris |
Portrait of Lady Alston is a 1762 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough featuring Gertrude, Lady Alston.[1] She was the wife of the Sir Rowland Alston, a colonel who she married in 1753 and who subsequently inherited his elder brother's baronetcy. At the time Gainsborough was an established portraitist of High Society based at the spa town of Bath. He depicts her at full-length in the fashionable costume of the mid Georgian era. Her stance appears to be inspired by a seventeenth century depiction of Lady Anne Clifford by Anthony van Dyck.[2] Gainsborough's painting appeared at the British Institution exhibition in London in 1862. Today is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having been given to the gallery by the Rothschild family in 1947.[3] [4]
References
[edit]- ^ Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830. Harry N. Abrams, 2007. p.355
- ^ Bryant p.186-87
- ^ "LADY ALSTON". pop.culture.gouv.fr.
- ^ "Portrait de Lady Alston (1732-1807)". June 7, 1761 – via Musée du Louvre.
Bibliography
[edit]- Bryant, Juliua. Kenwood: Catalogue of Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest. Yale University Pewss, 2003.
- Hamilton, James. Gainsborough: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2017.
