books0977:Portrait of Miss Talbot as Lavinia, full-length, in a landscape with sheep (exh.1802). Joh
books0977:Portrait of Miss Talbot as Lavinia, full-length, in a landscape with sheep (exh.1802). John Opie (English, 1761-1807). Oil on canvas. From James Thomson’s poem The Seasons.“…Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty’s self,Recluse amid the close-embowering woods:As in the hollow breast of Apennine,Beneath the shelter of encircling hills,A myrtle rises, far from human eye,And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild;So flourish’d, blooming, and unseen by all,The sweet Lavinia.” -- source link