# The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.

- By: Francis Cotes (British, 1726–1770)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Edward B. Greene
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.463)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1946.463/1946.463_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.