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Shown from the knees up, a woman sits looking off into the distance in front of a deep, shadowy landscape in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled slightly to our right, but she turns her oval face to the left to gaze off with brown eyes. Her upper lip is thin, and her lower lip is fuller. A cloud of ash-brown curls frames her face, and long locks fall over her shoulders. Her wide-brimmed black hat is set at a steep angle to our left. The hat has a white feather lying along the front edge and a pearl hanging from the top front of the brim. Her butter-yellow gown has…

Frances Susanna, Lady de Dunstanville

Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727 - 1788)

c. 1786 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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