Museum number
A66
Object
Oil Painting: Lady in a Blue Cloak by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), c.1765
Description
Half-length portrait of a lady, in half-profile facing right, her right fore-arm on an ornamented Palladian-style pedestal. Brown hair brushed back from forehead, dressed moderately high, dark brown eyes. Large earrings. Band of blue silk and lace round neck. Informal white gown trimmed with gathered ribbons of the same white silk applied in serpentine curves. Blue silk cloak with brown fur edging. On her right wrist, a miniature worn as a bracelet fastened with band of 5 chains. Dark greenish background. In a carved and gilded wooden frame in the rococo style - a good original Gainsborough frame.
Materials
Oil
On display?
Yes

Further description

Simple name
Painting
Dimensions
framed: 7cm (d) x 92.7100cm (h) x 81.2800cm (w)
regular: 73.6cm (h) x 62.2cm (w)
Lady in a Blue Cloak Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Oil on canvas, c.1765 Gainsborough used the fashions of his day to great advantage. He painted silks, lace and trimmings with a skill that made them as much a feature of his portraits as the sitter’s likeness. This elegant lady leans on a giltwood pedestal as she draws a fur-trimmed satin cloak around her. Her wrist reveals a miniature of a gentleman in red. A66

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