File:George Romney - Catherine (Brouncker) Adye, later Catherine Willett, c1784-1785 - Huntington Library.jpg

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George Romney: Catherine (Brouncker) Adye, later Catherine Willett  wikidata:Q116178520 reasonator:Q116178520
Artist
George Romney  (1734–1802)  wikidata:Q371280
 
George Romney
Description British painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 15 December 1734 (in Julian calendar) Edit this at Wikidata 15 November 1802 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dalton-in-Furness Kendal
Work location
Paris; Parma; Rome; Venice; Kendal; Lancaster; London; York Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q371280
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Title
Catherine (Brouncker) Adye, later Catherine Willett
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
Nearly half-length, three-quarters left, her gloved hands at her waist. Lemon straw hat, with white muslin and pale-rose-pink bows; powdered hair over the ears, gold earring, gray eyes. White fichu andn bodice; pale-rose cloak and dolman, trimmed with brown fur. The upper part of the face and lower part of her torso in shadow. Sky background
Date between circa 1784 and circa 1785
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 76.2 cm (30 in); width: 63.5 cm (25 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,76.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,63.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1400558
Accession number
22.56
Credit line The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Notes In this portrait, Romney makes the most of his twenty-two-year-old sitter’s enticing charms. Cocking her head at a fetching angle, she fixes the viewer with a direct gaze, which the artist has made all the more alluring by veiling her eyes in shadow [1]
Source/Photographer [2]

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