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Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. 23 PORTRAIT OF MRS. JORDAN BY JOHN HOPPNER, R.A. No. 23JOHN IIOPPNEli, R.A. ^Jj* English 1758—1810 \ V PORTRAIT OF MRS. JORDAN Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches A bright-eyed young woman of cheerful, smiling expression, who isseated facing slightly toward the left, turns her head forward andlooks quizzically at someone back of the spectator and to his right,her closed cupids-bow lips a deeper red than her rosy cheeks. She isgowned in black and a grayish-brown and wears a wide, purplish-pinksash, and her low corsage has a wide edging of white lace. Herpowdered hair or wig curls freely about her head, framing her cheeryface and falling thickly back of her shoulders, and is bound with afillet of white lace, a flowing end of which flies forward over oneshoulder. Conventional background of a broad, sunlit landscape anda dark blue sky. Front a private collection in England. Purchased from Messrs. Lawrie & Company, London.
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No. 24 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HENRY, DUKE OF CLARENCE (afterward King William IV) 13 Y THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. No. l>4THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. English 1727—1788 ^ PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HENRY, DUKE OFCLARENCE (afterward KING WILLIAM IV) Height, 30 incites; width, 25 inches His Royal Highness is portrayed as a youth with full, florid face,deep blue eyes, and mouth with a tendency to be pursed, yet with apleasant, affable expression. He wears a brown-gray wig with aformal curl over each ear. He is shown at half-length, standing, withthe hands included, his hands being crossed before him on the hilt ofhis sword, on which he lightly rests, and one hand holding his largedark hat. He is facing the left, three-quarters front, in his naval uni-form, wearing a blue coat with lace cuffs, a lace ruff, and a graywaistcoat which is crossed by a broad green sash. On his breast is thestar of an order. He is painted against a conventional sky back-ground. Mentioned in Gainsborough by Mortimer Menpe

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