I saw this portrait at the Wallace Collection, off Marylebone High Street, and I liked it very much.
What grabbed me was not just the portrait, but the big elaborate gilt frame around it – with shadow falling across the upper horizontal and light bouncing off the lower one.
Indeed, I liked the patterned red wallpaper behind it all too.
I made a drawing. Here’s the process video saved by my iPad:
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I like the way my version of the portrait came out.
It amuses me to consider getting it framed, so that I will have a picture in a frame of a picture in a frame.
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Evidently this woman was quite a big deal at the time the painting was made, but her name didn’t stick in my head.
Noli me oblivisci!1, as they used to say.
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1 Noli me oblivisci. It means, “Don’t forget me.”