A young girl with dark hair and pale skin, wearing a long white dress, kneels on the ground in a hilly, tree-lined landscape in this vertical portrait painting. The girl sits close to us, her body slightly angled to our left as she looks toward and reaches for a rose bush potted in a tall, brown urn along the left edge of the painting. She has pale gray eyes under faint brows and a delicate, pointed nose. Her round cheeks are flushed, and her pink bow lips are closed. Her chestnut-brown hair curls at the neck of her clothing, and bangs cover her forehead under a lacy white bonnet. Light…
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Lady Caroline Howard

Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723 - 1792)

1778

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 143 x 113 cm (56 5/16 x 44 1/2 in.) ; framed: 167.3 x 138.7 cm (65 7/8 x 54 5/8 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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