Thomas Gainsboro is one of the most famous portraitist in late 18 century. The picture was finished in 1780, drawn by oil. Original picture now placed in Hermitage. An artist differed with special property of harmonious choice of colors for illustrating socialites in his pictures. He was very popular among English nobility of that era.
The name of the woman, who posed for the artist, is still unknown for discovers of artist' s creation. There is theory , that those unknown woman was aristocrat Duchess de Bofor, but there is no true confirmation for this facts.
We can see that the picture is drawn by cool shades. Blue in abundance is used for illustrating long shawl, which woman covers light parts of her dress, also the hat of the duсhess is blue. It creates an impression, like thick very powdered hair of young woman have blue colour.
Snow white colour of woman's skin will excite everyone. Artist maximum reflected external features of young person, like he could convey her internal state. Always unperturbed with a mysterious looking of brown eyes. Dark, thin eyebrows and cheeks rosy. Ladies curls laid, like viewer see them touching shoulders. But at the end of dark silk stripe closed to chick, we see golden crucifix. Red lips of woman are open baring white teeth. Thin fingers hold shawl which went down from woman's shoulders. Duchess hold it carefully, looking somewhere away.
