Portrait of William Henry, Duke of Clarence, by Thomas Gainsborough

Portrait of William Henry, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV of the United Kingdom) by Thomas Gainsborough
Identifier: highquality00amer (find matches)
Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



Text Appearing Before Image:
AM IV) Height, 30 incites; width, 25 inches His Royal Highness is portrayed as a youth with full, florid face,deep blue eyes, and mouth with a tendency to be pursed, yet with apleasant, affable expression. He wears a brown-gray wig with aformal curl over each ear. He is shown at half-length, standing, withthe hands included, his hands being crossed before him on the hilt ofhis sword, on which he lightly rests, and one hand holding his largedark hat. He is facing the left, three-quarters front, in his naval uni-form, wearing a blue coat with lace cuffs, a lace ruff, and a graywaistcoat which is crossed by a broad green sash. On his breast is thestar of an order. He is painted against a conventional sky back-ground. Mentioned in Gainsborough by Mortimer Menpes, text by James Greig;1909; page 171. From the Duke of Cambridge sale at Christies, London, 1904: Xo. 86. Exhibited at the Loan Exhibition of M. Knoedleb & Co., New York, 1912:No. 9. Purchased from M. Knoedleb X: Co., New York.
Text Appearing After Image:
No. 25LADY MARY ANNE BEAUMONT BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A, Xo. 25 J Sill THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. English 1769—1830 LADY MARY ANNE BEAUMONT Height, 36Y4 inches; width, 28 inches The three-quarter length portrait of a smiling young woman withrounded and rosy cheeks, bright blue eyes, and rich black hair whichis in loose waves over her head and curls about her temples. Shewears a low-necked gown of pearl-white, with transparent sleevescaught at the shoulder with jewels, jeweled bracelets and a sapphirering. Her varicolored silken girdle joins its iridescence to the bril-liance of the jewels, and a deep, glowing yellow drapery curls frombehind her over her knees. She is seated, turned toward the right butfacing the spectator with frank, ingenuous gaze, and her hands lie onthe yellow drapery in her lap. The conventional background is inbrownish-olive and deep green tones. Lady Beaumont was the eldest daughter of Dr. William Howley, Archbishop of Canter-bury, and married in 18^.3 Sir Ge