Paintings

Mary (Palmer), Lady Beauchamp-Proctor

Type: Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1782-1788 ?
Accession number: 26.86
Maker: George Romney(Opens in new tab) (British, 1734–1802)
Sitter: Sitter: Mary (Palmer), Lady Beauchamp-Proctor(Opens in new tab) (British, 1760–1848)
Dimensions: 94 5/8 x 58 1/2 in. (240.3 x 148.6 cm.)
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: This full-length portrait depicts Lady Beauchamp-Proctor (1760-1848) standing alone in a landscape and resting her right elbow on a sculptured pedestal covered with rose drapery.
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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Resting her head on her hand in a gesture of contemplation, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor leans on a pillar in a secluded grove, lost in melancholic thought. Romney’s success at glamorizing the introspective mood of a rural setting and associating it with deep thought made him a portrait painter highly sought-after by fashionable men and women.

Mary (Palmer), Lady Beauchamp-Proctor

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