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May 15, 2020 · Added: 27 Mar, 2024. ‘Lady Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire’ was created by Thomas Gainsborough in Rococo style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Date: January 1, 1783. Medium: Mezzotint; second state of three. Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed to plate): 24 13/16 × 15 3/16 in. (63 × 38.5 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953. Accession Number: 53.600.4485.
1615. A portrait miniature of Lady Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire by Richard Cosway, part of the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth, acquired and preserved by 16 generations of the Devonshire family.
Georgiana Cavendish (née Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire. (1757-1806), Beauty and leader of Whig society; first wife of 5th Duke of Devonshire. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 32 portraits. Georgiana Spencer became a leader of Whig society.
Georgiana Cavendish (née Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), Beauty and leader of Whig society; first wife of 5th Duke of Devonshire. The ‘numerous indubitable portraits of her vary so immensely that, but for documentary evidence, it would seem impossible that all represent the same person.’ (C. F. Bell; MS note interleaved in his ...
Georgiana Cavendish (née Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), Beauty and leader of Whig society; first wife of 5th Duke of Devonshire. Sitter in 32 portraits. Artists. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Portrait and landscape painter. Artist or producer associated with 268 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.
This portrait, painted seven years after the death of the Duchess, was based on an earlier miniature for which the artist had had a sitting in about 1800. It is one of the series of paintings in the ‘Gallery of Beauties’ commissioned by George IV when Prince Regent.
