File:Mrs.Stanhope.jpg

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Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Elizabeth Falconer, Mrs. Stanhope, as contemplation  wikidata:Q122828154 reasonator:Q122828154
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Joshua Reynolds  (1723–1792)  wikidata:Q194402 s:en:Author:Joshua Reynolds q:en:Joshua Reynolds
 
Joshua Reynolds
Description British painter, writer and art collector
Date of birth/death 16 July 1723 Edit this at Wikidata 23 February 1792 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Plympton London
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artist QS:P170,Q194402
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Title
Portrait of Elizabeth Falconer, Mrs. Stanhope, as contemplation
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Elizabeth Falconer, Mrs. Stanhope, as contemplation"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
She's dressed all in plain white (which was not a usual fashion at the time) in order to express a neo-classical aesthetic, but the pattern of her clothes is according to the prevailing unclassicized 18th-century silhouette of corseted torso above full skirts.
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 142 cm (55.9 in); width: 113 cm (44.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,142U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,113U174728
Object history
Provenance

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar (1797-1864), by 1840;
By descent until sold, The Novar Collection sale, London, Christie's, 6 April 1878, lot 45 (as Contemplation, Hon. Mrs. Stanhope, mother of Lady Southampton, painted as Miss Faulkner) to Agnew's, on behalf of Baroness de Rothschild;
Emma Louise von Rothschild, Baroness de Rothschild (1844-1935);
Thence by descent until sold through Thos. Agnew and Colnaghi, London, to the current owner in 1976.

Exhibition history

London, Royal Academy, 1787, no. 76;

London, British Institution, 1840, no. 43, as Contemplation (lent by H.A.J. Munro).
References sothebys.com
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