Images(2)

Catherine (Brouncker) Adye, later Catherine Willett

Maker George Romney (British, 1734-1802)

SitterSitter: Catherine (Brouckner) Adye, later Catherine Willett (British, 1762 - 1798)

Collections

British Painting Highlights

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Date1784-1785

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm.) frame: 41 1/4 × 36 × 5 1/4 in. (104.8 × 91.4 × 13.3 cm.)

DescriptionNearly half-length, three-quarters left, her gloved hands at her waist. Lemon straw hat, with white muslin and pale-rose-pink bows; powdered hair over the ears, gold earring, gray eyes. White fichu andn bodice; pale-rose cloak and dolman, trimmed with brown fur. The upper part of the face and lower part of her torso in shadow. Sky background.

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Label TextIn this portrait, Romney makes the most of his twenty-two-year-old sitter’s enticing charms. Cocking her head at a fetching angle, she fixes the viewer with a direct gaze, which the artist has made all the more alluring by veiling her eyes in shadow.

Bibliography

British paintings at the Huntington

Object number22.56