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    • Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway, 1764
    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.

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    This work has been published in the Museum's Bulletin or Journal. These articles may or may not represent the most current scholarship.
  • Appleby, John H. "Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of John Barker, Chairman of Ramsgate Harbour." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 41 (2006).
  • Baetjer, Katharine. "British Portraits: In The Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 57, no. 1 (Summer, 1999).
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    Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway, 1764
    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)


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