Minneapolis Institute of Art
Anne, Countess of Strafford
Sir Joshua ReynoldsLinkedCulture matchlcp-117625b40a21
- Date
- 1758–59
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 5996
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Lady Strafford (c. 1715–85) was born into a wealthy noble family and married into one as well. She and her husband, William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, moved in a social set that included luminaries such as the author and art historian Horace Walpole. Walpole considered the countess a “vast beauty” and immortalized her charms in a poem published in 1765. This portrait was later reproduced by at least four engravers, evidence that painter, portrait, and sitter were all held in high regard. England, Europe
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- Bequest of Margaret Weyerhaeuser Harmon
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