Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned young girl wearing an ink-black garment with a cream-white collar and a coral-red sash and necklaces holds a terrier dog as she looks at us in this vertical portrait painting. The artist used brushstrokes throughout, especially in the hair, clothing, dog, and background. The girl’s body is slightly angled to our left but she turns her oval face to us. She slightly cocks one faint brow as she gazes out with large, pale blue eyes. She has smooth cheeks, and her full, red lips are closed. Her chestnut-brown hair curtains her forehead in thick bangs and…
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Miss Beatrice Townsend

painter John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1882

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 79.4 x 58.4 cm (31 1/4 x 23 in.) ; framed: 97.8 x 74.1 x 3.2 cm (38 1/2 x 29 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
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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