The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.

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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.

Francis CotesLinkedCulture matchlcp-f17af1bfe5b7

Date
1755
Medium
pastel on laid paper lined with canvas
Culture
England, 18th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
125028

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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. Francis Cotes described his pastel works as "decorative in a very high degree in apartments that are not too large; for having their surface dry, they partake in appearance of the effect of Fresco, and by candle light are luminous and beautiful beyond all other pictures."

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Credit line
Gift of Edward B. Greene
Provenance
?-1924: Colonel Herbert Hall Mulliner [1861-1924], Birmingham | 1924: (sale, Christie's, London, July 18, 1924, no. 2) | after 1924-by 1937: (P. & D. Colnaghi, London) | 1937: (sale, Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, April 27, 1937, no. 148) | 1937: (A. Seligmann & Rey, Paris, sold to Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH) | 1937-1946: Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1946-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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