The subject of this painting would have been the aunt of Elizabeth Browning had she not died of tuberculosis after its completion.
The subject of this painting would have been the aunt of Elizabeth Browning had she not died of tuberculosis after its completion. Standing up and leaning forward on one bow-decorated black shoe, the title character raises her left arm and holds her hand directly in front of the neckline of her dress; her other arm rests near her waist, and is only visible to the elbow. Her position atop a grassy hill gives the illusion that she is towering above the landscape and into the cloud-covered dark blue sky, with her trademark dress and ribbons on her hat blowing to the right into the wind. Located in the Huntington Gallery across from a Gainsborough portrait, this is, FTP, what Thomas Lawrence painting and companion piece of the Blue Boy, in which 12 year old Sarah Barrett Moulton is nicknamed for the color of the outfit she wears?
The subject of this painting would have been the aunt of Elizabeth Browning had she not died of tuberculosis after its completion.
{Pinkie} (accept an answer mentioning “Sarah Barrett Moulton” on an early buzz)