Barbara, Marchioness of Donegal, third wife to Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall (1796).&n
Barbara, Marchioness of Donegal, third wife to Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall (1796). George Romney (English, 1734-1802). Oil on canvas.Full length, dressed in a white dress and blue satin sash decorated with pearls, leaning on a plinth draped with a red ermine-line cape, a landscape beyond. Romney had painted a number of such full length portraits of beautiful young ladies, set in dramatic park landscapes. They are often shown leaning on plinths or balustrades, dressed simply in fashionable white gowns, which the artist renders with fluid beauty. The figure is posed with elegant nonchalance, one arm resting on a garden ledge, leaning against it with her ankles crossed. -- source link
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