Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned woman wearing white sits facing us against a golden-toned landscape background in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled to our left, but she looks at us steadily from the corners of her large eyes. The slate-blue irises have some touches of hazel. Her cheeks are tinged with pink, she has a long nose, and her full pink lips are closed. Her ash-brown hair is pulled loosely back and falls in curls around her heart-shaped face. A translucent white ruffle flares around the neckline of her opal-white, long-sleeved dress. The bodice wraps…
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Miss Eleanor Urquhart

Sir Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756 - 1823)

c. 1793

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75 x 62 cm (29 1/2 x 24 7/16 in.) ; framed: 101.6 x 90.2 x 12.7 cm (40 x 35 1/2 x 5 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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