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The daughter of a gentleman of Irish origins, William Carr, the sitter probably posed for this painting on the occasion of her marriage in 1789 to Thomas Chinnal Porter. Executed with bold, loose and [+]
The sitter wears the ceremonial robes of the House of Lords and the insignia of the Order of the Garter. Lawrence captures the sitter’s personality in a work whose technique recalls that of Van Dyck. [+]
Depicted full-length, the sitter is shown seated in a gallery opening onto a park. She wears a sweeping gown in the Empire style with a shawl over her arms and a turban-like headdress. This is a chara [+]
