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Gilbert Stuart — Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a brown dress with a black lace shawl and a white bonnet
Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a brown dress with a black lace shawl and a white bonnet

Gilbert Stuart's portrait of a lady is an oil painting on oval canvas depicting a half-length figure in 19th-century dress. The work exemplifies Stuart's neoclassical portraiture style and skillful rendering of fabric textures and facial features.

Medium
oil on canvas, an oval
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Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

October 18, 2021

Estimate: $8,000 – $12,000

Lot 48

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Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a brown dress with a black lace shawl and a white bonnet

Gilbert Stuart's portrait of a lady is an oil painting on oval canvas depicting a half-length figure in 19th-century dress. The work exemplifies Stuart's neoclassical portraiture style and skillful rendering of fabric textures and facial features.

Medium
oil on canvas, an oval
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Brown, American, Half Length, Female, Portrait, Dignified, Neoclassical, 18th Century, Oil on Canvas, Formal

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums