File:George Romney - Elizabeth Ramus.jpg
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Summary
George Romney: Portrait of Elizabeth Ramus (1751–1848)
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Portrait of Elizabeth Ramus (1751–1848) |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Portrait of Elizabeth Ramus (1751-1848), daughter of Nicholas Ramus and subsequently wife of Baron de Nougal, half-length, in a pink dress with gold trim and a green shawl, her hair tied with a gold-embroidered white muslin scarf.
Commissioned from Romney in 1777, this charming portrait of the youthful Elizabeth Ramus was executed at a key moment in the artist's career when, having returned in 1775 from a formative two-year tour of Italy, Romney took the leasehold on Francis Cotes's house and studio at 24 Cavendish Square, and launched his career as a leading society portrait painter, in competition with Reynolds and Gainsborough. Romney's sitter books between 1776 and 1795 record a staggering 1,500 sitters, many of whom commissioned two or three portraits. Elizabeth was the daughter of Nicholas Ramus, a senior Page to King George III. Many members of the Ramus family, which was of Swiss extraction, served at the Court of George III: Isaac and William Ramus are recorded as Pages of the Back Stairs to His Majesty; Thomas Ramus was a Page of the Bed-Chamber; and Charles, Joseph and Louis all held offices in His Majesty's Kitchen. Romney painted a portrait of Nicholas Ramus's eldest daughter, Benedetta, which was offered as lot 79 in the 1882 sale. The two sisters also sat to Gainsborough for a double portrait, which was sold at Christie's in 1873 and again in 1889, when it was acquired by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. It was later destroyed in a fire at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. |
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| Date | from 1777 until 1778 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 76.2 cm (30 in) ; width: 63.8 cm (25.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5701804 (sale 1136, lot 50) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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