The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.
Medium
pastel on laid paper lined with canvas
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Edward B. Greene
Accession Number
1946.463
Tags
male
About this artwork
A founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the leading fashionable portrait painters of his generation, Francis Cotes was a pioneer of pastel painting in England. Here, in her marriage portrait, the young Lady Mary Radcliffe is regal in a Turkish-inspired, peacock blue mantle decorated with gold and trimmed with ermine. Pearls and feathers adorn her hair and a décolleté scarlet bodice reveals an expanse of porcelain skin.