Portrait of the Misses Paine
Artist
Tilly Kettle
(English, 1734-1786)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1757
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 59 x 53 in. (149.9 x 134.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anthony Gargiulo
Object number97.48
Not on view
DescriptionThis portrait depicts the daughters of James Paine (1725-1789), an architect. The girls are shown in a park-like setting with a pet squirrel on the path before them.The older girl wears a long white dress with rose sash and ermine-trimmed cape. The younger sister wears a rose dress and gauzy, wind-blown cape.Exhibition History"Proud Possessions. A Community Collects," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va, May 29 - July 19, 1992. Published ReferencesGraves and Cronin, HISTORY OF THE WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A., Vol. 2 (1899), pp. 718-9 (aas Sir Joshua Reynolds) Sir Walter Armstrong, SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, 1900, p. 222 (as Sir Joshua Reynolds) Freeman O'Donoghue, CATALOGUE OF THE ENGRAVED BRITISH PORTRAITS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, Vol. 3, (1912), p. 398 (as Sir Joshua Reynolds). OLD MASTER PAINTINGS (NY: Sotheby's sale catalogue for Thursday, January 10, 1991), Lot 87, ill. PROUD POSSESSIONS. A COMMUNITY COLLECTS (Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1992), pp. 11,83. Ill p. 11, b/w.
