Portrait of Mrs Wells, three-quarter-length, seated, in a striped dress and straw hat (1787-1788). S
Portrait of Mrs Wells, three-quarter-length, seated, in a striped dress and straw hat (1787-1788). Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792). Oil on canvas.The sitter was a well known actress who appeared in productions at the Haymarket, Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Royalty theatres. In 1778 she married Ezra Wells, who was to desert her, after which she became the mistress of Captain Edward Topham, of Yorkshire, with whom she had four children. Reynolds shows Mrs Wells in a brown and silver striped dress with a white gauze apron with a fashionable wide-brimmed straw hat decorated with large bows. -- source link
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