This painting depicts the upper half of a seated young woman who is facing forward. She has fair skin, pale eyebrows, gray eyes, and thin lips in a neutral expression. The right side of her face is partially in shadow. Her light brown hair is styled up with a blue ribbon and pearl ornaments. She wears a black dress with lace detailing, a red gem, and pearl strands at the neckline. The dress also features blue slits in the arms, blue bows at each elbow, and lace cuffs at the end of the long sleeves. She wears a pearl necklace with a blue bow in the back and holds a small white dog on her lap.…
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Miss Beatrix Lister

painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723 - 1792)

1765

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 74.9 x 62.2 cm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.) ; framed: 92.4 x 79.4 cm (36 3/8 x 31 1/4 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Margaret Mellon Hitchcock
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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