The Marchioness of Northampton

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1877? (late 1870s)
Model: Honble. Mary Florence Baring

Bibliography

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 180 (no. 404).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Surtees dates this to the late 1870s but it is possibly a discarded study he made when he did the completed chalk portrait in 1874 (see commentary for the latter). The two poses are quite different as is the disposition of the hair in each.

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