Shown from the hips up, an elegantly dressed woman with smooth, pale skin and ash-brown hair piled high on her head looks off into the distance to our left in front of a loosely painted landscape in this vertical portrait. Her body is angled to our right but she looks in the opposite direction with clear blue eyes under faint eyebrows. She has rosy cheeks, a small nose, and bow-shaped, apple-red lips set in an oval face. Her hair is streaked with brown and gray, and is arranged in a high updo with a long tendril curling down in front of her right shoulder, to our left. A string of silver…
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The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham

Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727 - 1788)

c. 1775/1777

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 89.5 x 69 cm (35 1/4 x 27 3/16 in.) ; framed: 118.1 x 97.8 x 10.5 cm (46 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Widener 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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