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| Lady Lemon (1747–1823) |
Artist:George Romney (British, Beckside, Lancashire 1734–1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
Date:mid- to late 1780s
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Jane Buller, the sitter in this elegant portrait, married William Lemon in 1771 and bore ten children. Lord Lemon commissioned George Romney to paint half-length portraits of himself and his wife in 1881, when Lady Lemon was forty-years old. She sat for the painting on six occasions in Romney’s London studio. Posing the sitter in an armchair against a landscape background became a common convention in later Georgian British portraiture. Romney portrays his subject with a gentle touch.
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