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C. 1770s painting by Thomas Gainsborough From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woman in Blue is an oil-on-canvas portrait of an unknown woman, executed in the late 1770s or early 1780s by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough during his fifteen-year stay in Bath, Somerset.[1][2]
Woman in Blue | |
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Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
Year | ca. 1775–1785 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 76.5 cm × 63.5 cm (30.1 in × 25.0 in) |
Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
Some art historians have identified its subject as the Duchess of Beaufort, daughter of Edward Boscawen.[3] It is now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, to which it was left in 1916 by Alexei Khitrovo, making it the only work by the artist in Russia.[4]
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