Sujet

Mrs. Clark Gayton, 1779. Creator: John Singleton Copley.

Légende

Mrs. Clark Gayton, 1779. Elizabeth Legge Gayton sits in elegant, relaxed repose. She rests on her left elbow, holding a brush in her right hand to suggest that she was only recently painting on the sheets of paper gathered in a loose folio at her side. A red geranium blooms in silhouette against the open window. Native to southern Africa, that flower had to be carefully protected from the cold English weather. The artist used these details to signal Gayton’s refinement, worldliness, and prosperity. Copley painted this domestic portrait in London to hang alongside his naval portrait of Elizabeth’s new, significantly older husband Admiral Clark Gayton (1712-1785).

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A53_108

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,5Mo (4,5Mo) / 33,7cm x 42,0cm / 3981 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature portrait female women woman people interior domestic historical sitting flower flowers plant plants arts painting country leaning figure figures art clothes British color pensive scene dress depiction location century Colonial geraniums geranium gallery Britain inside paintbrush household gown prosperity clothing concept seated APPAREL looking at camera worldly sophisticated prosperous art gallery oil Painting United States of America Colour pelargonium Realism Indoors pelargoniums Realist 1779 18th century Eighteenth Century culture American history historic America USA artistic movement colonialism leaning on elbow Oil on canvas direct gaze united states John Singleton Copley Elizabeth Legge Copley John Singleton J. S. Copley R. A. Oil on canvas art centre Detroit Institute of Arts 1770s art movement Heritage Art clothing & dress fashion & clothing John Copley American Art before 1950 Elizabeth Legge Gayton Gayton Elizabeth Legge Elizabeth Legge Elizabeth Gayton