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Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Hemyng

Anthony Devis, 1738–1742

Museum of the Home, London

This portrait is of a slightly forbidding spinster wearing a fashionable, Spitalfields silk open robe of yellow and white, which can be dated 1738-42. She seems to be holding a container of perfume. The room in which she sits is furnished in the middle-class manner of the time - austerely but elegantly.

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Title of artwork, date

Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Hemyng, 1738–1742

Date supported

1972

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

53 x 41 cm

Grant

1350

Total cost

3850

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