Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Hemyng
Anthony Devis, 1738–1742
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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