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Mrs. Macdowall
Henry Raeburnabout 1800
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, United States
Details
- Title: Mrs. Macdowall
- Creator Lifespan: 1756 - 1823
- Creator Nationality: British
- Creator Gender: Male
- Date Created: about 1800
- Type: oil paintings
- Rights: Gift of Mrs. Herman C. Krannert
- External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/21241
- Medium: oil on canvas
- wall label: In keeping with the taste in portraiture at the time, Mrs. MacDowall is posed in an informal outdoor setting and looks at the viewer with candor. The brown-toned landscape, although loosely based on natural observation, was painted in the artist's studio in accord with 18th-century practice. Raeburn's habit of painting swiftly gives this canvas much of its vitality.
- measurements: 28 x 36 in.
- Artist: Raeburn, Henry
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