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Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie"

Maker (British, 1769-1830)
Sitter (British, 1783 - 1795)
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Date1794
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 58 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (148 × 102.2 cm.) frame: 70 × 53 × 6 in. (177.8 × 134.6 × 15.2 cm.)
DescriptionThis iconic painting by Thomas Lawrence portrays in full-length young Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton – better known by her nickname, Pinkie – in a landscape.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Label TextSarah, known to her family as “Pinkie,” was raised in the British colony of Jamaica before being sent to England for schooling. Her grandmother commissioned this painting to ease the pain of the child’s absence, requesting that the artist depict her “in an easy, careless attitude.” Pinkie’s brilliant hat ribbons flutter in the breeze, while a gust of wind picks up her lustrous white skirts. The low horizon heightens the monumentality of this portrait of a young girl, her figure standing out against the sky.

Status
On view
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