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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq. | musefully
Cotes, Francis. The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq., 1755. pastel on laid paper lined with canvas, Image: 60.7 x 45.7 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.). Gift of Edward B. Greene, 1946.463. CC0.
The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.
1755
Francis Cotes
Francis Cotes (British, 1726–1770)
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The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq., 1755. Francis Cotes (British, 1726–1770). Pastel on laid paper lined with canvas; image: 60.7 x 45.7 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Edward B. Greene 1946.463 A founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the leading fashionable portrait painters of his generation, Francis Cotes was a pioneer of pastel painting in England. Here, in her marriage portrait, the young Lady Mary Radcliffe is regal in a Turkish-inspired, peacock blue mantle decorated with gold and trimmed with ermine. Pearls and feathers adorn her hair and a décolleté scarlet bodice reveals an expanse of porcelain skin. Francis Cotes described his pastel works as "decorative in a very high degree in apartments that are not too large; for having their surface dry, they partake in appearance of the effect of Fresco, and by candle light are luminous and beautiful beyond all other pictures."