She's dressed all in plain white (which was not a usual fashion at the time) in order to express a neo-classical aesthetic, but the pattern of her clothes is according to the prevailing unclassicized 18th-century silhouette of corseted torso above full skirts.
18th-century portrait paintings of women, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location
label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location"
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Object history
Provenance
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar (1797-1864), by 1840;
By descent until sold, The Novar Collection sale, London, Christie's, 6 April 1878, lot 45 (as Contemplation, Hon. Mrs. Stanhope, mother of Lady Southampton, painted as Miss Faulkner) to Agnew's, on behalf of Baroness de Rothschild;
Emma Louise von Rothschild, Baroness de Rothschild (1844-1935);
Thence by descent until sold through Thos. Agnew and Colnaghi, London, to the current owner in 1976.
Exhibition history
London, Royal Academy, 1787, no. 76;
London, British Institution, 1840, no. 43, as Contemplation (lent by H.A.J. Munro).
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