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Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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d the left and facing the front directly, and is shown athalf-length. Her chestnut hair in ringlets curls about her cheeks andtemples, partly obscuring one eye, it falls so low, but is parted overthe center of the forehead. The forehead comes well into the stronglight that falls full on her face and on her breast, which is liberallyexposed by her low, cream-white gown which shows notes of old gold.She wears also a ruby cloak which is thrown back in careless folds,and she sits in an easy posture, leaning slightly back to her right.The background is dark. Exhibited at the Edinburgh Loan Exhibition, 1901: Catalogue No. 148. Previously in the collection of Mr. Arthur Sanderson, of Edinburgh, whopurchased it from the family. Shown at the Scottish Old Masters Exhibition, Grafton. Gallery, London. 1895. Mentioned in Sir Walter Armstrongs Raebum, 1901, page 115. Exhibited at the Loan Exhibition of M. Kxokdi.ku & Co., New York, 191 I:No. 23. Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., Nero York.
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No. 23PORTRAIT OF MRS. JORDAN BY JOHN HOPPNER, R.A. No. 23JOHN IIOPPNEli, R.A. ^Jj* English 1758—1810 \ V PORTRAIT OF MRS. JORDAN Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches A bright-eyed young woman of cheerful, smiling expression, who isseated facing slightly toward the left, turns her head forward andlooks quizzically at someone back of the spectator and to his right,her closed cupids-bow lips a deeper red than her rosy cheeks. She isgowned in black and a grayish-brown and wears a wide, purplish-pinksash, and her low corsage has a wide edging of white lace. Herpowdered hair or wig curls freely about her head, framing her cheeryface and falling thickly back of her shoulders, and is bound with afillet of white lace, a flowing end of which flies forward over oneshoulder. Conventional background of a broad, sunlit landscape anda dark blue sky. Front a private collection in England. Purchased from Messrs. Lawrie & Company, London.

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