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| Mrs. George Baldwin (Jane Maltass, 1763–1839) |
Artist:Workshop of Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)
Date:1782 or later
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 1/8 x 29 1/8 in. (91.8 x 74 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of William T. Blodgett and his sister Eleanor Blodgett, in memory of their father, William T. Blodgett, one of the founders of the Museum, 1906
Catalogue Entry
Jane Maltass, daughter of a merchant of the Levant Company, was born at Smyrna in Ottoman Turkey. She married George Baldwin, a merchant of Alexandria, who later became the British consul there. Mrs. Baldwin sat for Reynolds in London in February and March of 1782. A version of her portrait now at Bowood in Wiltshire is presumably the one exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782, no. 159, as Portrait of a Grecian Lady. A second version was withdrawn from sale at Christie's, London, November 26, 2003, no. 4 (location unknown). Both works were in the artist’s studio at the time of his death, and this bust-length copy, which employs the same palette, was probably painted there as well by an assistant.
[2010; adapted from Baetjer 2009]
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