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1740 Attributed to Allan Ramsay - Portrait of a lady, seated three-quarter-length, in a white dress and cap with blue bows
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1740 Attributed to Allan Ramsay - Portrait of a lady, seated three-quarter-length, in a white dress and cap with blue bows
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Allan Ramsay (1713–1784), Portrait of a Lady, Half-Length, in a White Dress, Holding a Rose (detail)
Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) "The Artist's Wife: Margaret Lindsay of Evelick" (1758) Oil on canvas
Portrait of Miss Craigie, 1741 Allan Ramsay
Emily, Marchioness of Kildare
Artist: Allan Ramsay (Scottish, 1713-1784)
Date: 1764-1766
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Description
The sitter, second daughter of the 2nd Duke of Richmond, married James, 20th Earl of Kildare in 1747 at the age of fifteen and spent long periods in Ireland. Thanks to her family connections she was well known in London society and was much loved for her intelligence and her warm personality. Ramsay presents her as contemplative and book-learned (she is reading the ancient historian Procopius). Her sister, Lady Holland (the mother of Charles James Fox) wrote to her as the portrait was being finished: “I saw your sweet face at Ramsay’s t’other day; ‘tis a heavenly picture indeed'.
Principal painter to King George III, Ramsay was one of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s chief rivals, noted for his ability to portray character and his soft, often pastel-like colour.
David Hume, 1711 - 1776. Historian and Philosopher
Artist: Allan Ramsay (Scottish, 1713-1784)
Date: 1754
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Description
This is the first of two portraits by Ramsay of the historian and philosopher, David Hume. It was painted during Ramsay’s extended stay in Edinburgh in 1754, when, together with Adam Smith, Hume and Ramsay helped found an exclusive debating club known as the Select Society. In the same year, Hume also published the first volume of his celebrated History of England.
Allan Ramsay
(attributed to) Allan Ramsay, George III, 1761-1769 x