Museum number
A359
Object
Framed oil painting: Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), studio of Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), oil on canvas c.1766
Description
3/4 length portrait of Queen Charlotte seated wearing a turquoise moire silk sack-back dress, with silver trim, 3 cream Brussels bobbin lace flounces at cuffs ( engageantes ), and lace trim at square neckline. Also wearing an elaborate choker of blue ribbon and lace which stretches down to the bodice and a decoration of a white and pink flower. Light brown hair, tightly curled and worn up, one round pearl earring visible. The sitter's left hand, in a long white glove, rests on her lap, the left arm, with no glove, rests on the arm of the chair, which is draped in some of the ample blue silk skirt of her dress. On this arm the sitter wears a bracelet made of strings of pearls with a miniature oval portrait of a gentleman in profile (George III). In the background, on the left hand side of the picture, a draped red curtain. Decorative chair back visible on the right.
Materials
Oil
On display?
Yes

Further description

Simple name
Painting
Subject
Portrait
Dimensions
framed: 112.0000cm (h) x 122cm (h) x 91.6000cm (w)
regular: 68.6cm (h) x 89.9cm (w)
Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) Studio of Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) Oil on canvas, about 1766 Sophia Charlotte, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, married the young King George III in 1761. At the time of this portrait she was 21 or 22 and already the mother of four children. Seated on a needlework chair, she is dressed in silk, silver and lace. Her hair is tightly dressed in the French style and her outfit is completed with a pair of camellias. She has removed her glove to reveal a pearl bracelet with a miniature of her husband. Bequest of Ernest E. Cook through the Art Fund, 1955 A359

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