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Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds...at the British Institution, 1865. Creator: W Thomas.

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Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the exhibition of the works of Old Masters at the British Institution, 1865. Engraving of a painting. 'Of the many charming pictures of children Sir Joshua has left us, this portrait of the little Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick, exhibited by the Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick (a relative, we presume, though we do not know in what degree), is one of the most delightful. The attitude, with the hands primly crossed, and an arch shyness of expression, as if conscious of being painted, is repeated in three or four of the master's portraits of children...Agreeably to the classicalism of the time, which gave to other of Sir Joshua's works the titles of "Muscipula," "Felina," and other fanciful designations, the present portrait was also called "Collina," from the little hill on which the child is standing. We must suppose that she is thus placed, and that we are looking slightly upwards at her, in order to account for a figure so diminutive in stature having nothing but a sky background, and for the horizontal line being so low as the ankles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A26_283

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

28,2Mo (2,7Mo) / 22,7cm x 31,1cm / 2685 x 3673 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female people child children girl girls arts art British color century Britain newspapers press print B&W full length full-length engraved engraving Colour 19th century nobility black & white black and white B W aristocracy aristocrat white and black 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN Sir Joshua Reynolds newspaper portrait W Thomas Thomas W Reynolds Joshua Sir Reynolds Sir Joshua Joshua Reynolds Sir J Reynolds Reynolds Joshua 19th-century W. Thomas Thomas W.