Pinkie

So, i've come across this print in a cute little frame. It was in the hallway, hidden under a shirt and waiting for me to find it agian.



So i did find it, and was going to scan it thinking it wasn't an important piece of art, small as it is, Dad told me it was a Pink Lady, so i of course googled it, and finally found it.

Here is the info from the website.


Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie (1794)
Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
oil on canvas, 58 1/4 x 40 1/4 inches

Pinkie, facing The Blue Boy in the Thornton Portrait Gallery and often paired with it in popular esteem, is by Thomas Lawrence, one of the great portrait painters of his generation. It was painted about 25 years after Gainsborough's masterpiece and had no association with that work until they both were displayed in the Huntington in the late 1920s.

Executed when the artist was only 25 and shortly after his election to the Royal Academy, Pinkie is an extraordinarily fresh and lively performance with the sitter standing on a hill, her dress blown by the wind. The movement of her dress in conjunction with her frank gaze gives a sense of immediacy to the composition and expresses the animation of the sitter. The young girl was the daughter of a wealthy plantation family in Jamaica, who came to England for her education. Called "Pinkie" by her grandmother who commissioned the portrait, she was only eleven when her likeness was taken. Sadly, Sarah died within a few months of the portrait's completion, probably of tuberculosis. Her younger brother Edward was the father of the poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Pinkie was the last painting purchased by Mr. Huntington, who did not live to see it installed in the house.

I really like this painting, and will be keeping it forever. Unless of course it's worth some cash.
Either way, it's awesome.
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