Paintings

Catherine (Brouncker) Adye, later Catherine Willett

Type: Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1784-1785
Accession number: 22.56
Maker: George Romney(Opens in new tab) (British, 1734–1802)
Sitter: Catherine (Brouckner) Adye, later Catherine Willett(Opens in new tab) (British, 1762–1798)
Dimensions: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: Nearly half-length, three-quarters left, her gloved hands at her waist. Lemon straw hat, with white muslin and pale-rose-pink bows; powdered hair over the ears, gold earring, gray eyes. White fichu andn bodice; pale-rose cloak and dolman, trimmed with brown fur. The upper part of the face and lower part of her torso in shadow. Sky background.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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In this portrait, Romney makes the most of his twenty-two-year-old sitter’s enticing charms. Cocking her head at a fetching angle, she fixes the viewer with a direct gaze, which the artist has made all the more alluring by veiling her eyes in shadow.

Catherine (Brouncker) Adye, later Catherine Willett

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