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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.
Francis Cotes (British, 1726–1770)
1755
- Medium
- pastel on laid paper lined with canvas
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Image: 60.7 x 45.7 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.)
- Culture
- England, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Edward B. Greene
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
