Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway, 1764
Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792)
Oil on canvas
Artist Biography
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Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792)
Oil on canvas
52 1/2 x 46 3/4 in. (133.4 x 118.7 cm), with strip of 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm) folded over the top of the stretcher
Gift of Lillian S. Timken, 1950 (50.238.2)
The sitter was the daughter of Sir James Dashwood, member of Parliament for Oxford (whose portrait by Seeman is in the Aitken Galleries). She sat for Reynolds three times in the month preceding her marriage on June 13, 1764, to John Stewart, Lord Garlies, later seventh earl of Galloway. The artist presents her in the traditional guise of a shepherdess, but wearing rubies, pearls, and a gauze scarf, and with her hair dressed stylishly.
