Who created "Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782)"?

Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782) was created by George Romney in 1781.

What medium is "Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782)"?

Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782) is Oil on canvas.

Is "Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782)" in the public domain?

Yes, Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782) is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782)

George Romney

1781

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

29 3/4 x 24 7/8 in. (75.6 x 63.2 cm)

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Jessie Woolworth Donahue, 1958

Accession Number

58.102.2

Tags

PortraitsWomen

About this artwork

This three-quarter length portrait depicts a young woman identified as Emily Bertie Pott, painted by George Romney in 1781, the same year she sat for Joshua Reynolds's celebrated "Thaïs." The subject appears in fashionable contemporary dress against a neutral background, rendered in Romney's characteristic style with fluid brushwork and attention to the sitter's delicate features and expression. The painting measures approximately thirty by twenty-five inches, executed in oil on canvas with the ...

About the Artist

George Romney · 1734–1802

George Romney (1734–1802) was a British portrait painter who, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, formed the triumvirate of great English portraitists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, he received his early training from the itinerant portrait painter Christopher Steele before moving to London in 1762. Romney quickly establishe...

Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782)

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