A young lady wearing an embroidered mantle and a white satin dress with square décolletage is portrayed seated. Should the traditional identification of the subject as lady clinton (1795-1875) be correct, she would have been about fourteen years old when this style of dress was in fashion. The identification is based on a newspaper clipping, attached to the reverse of the panel bearing the obituary of the dowager lady clinton, second wife of sir horace seymour, who served as "lady of the bed-chamber" to queen adelaide for several years prior to 1837. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: between 1807 and 1810. Place of creation: United Kingdom. Dimensions: height: 30 cm (11.8 in); width: 24.2 cm (9.5 in). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Sir William Beechey - Portrait of Lady Clinton (?) - Walters 37176
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