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    3. John Henry Upton, 1st viscount Templetown
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    John Henry Upton, 1st viscount Templetown

    British, 1771 - 1846

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    Both dressed in white, a little boy leans onto the lap of a woman sitting in front of a smooth, sunlit boulder with a landscape to the right in this vertical portrait painting. Both people have pale skin with rosy cheeks. To our left, the woman sits with her body facing our right. Her round face also tips to our right, and she looks at us with gray eyes. She has an upturned nose and her full, pink lips are closed in a slight smile. Her long legs are crossed at the ankles, and dark gray slippers peek out from under the long hem. She wears a diaphanous, eggshell-white gown gathered under her bust. The short sleeves of the dress are puffy over sheer sleeves that extend to her wrists. A sheer veil is tied over her brown hair with a gray ribbon falls over her shoulders. She wears coral-red beaded necklace and drop earrings. Her hands rest in her lap and intertwine with the little boy’s hands. He stands behind her and leans onto her knees with both elbows. His round face is framed by a cap of honey-brown hair, and he looks at us with big, lapis-blue eyes. The boy has a small nose and bow-shaped lips. He wears a flax-yellow and mist-gray short sleeved garment with a bow in the back. Light falls on the pair from our left, and throws some of the foliage surrounding them into shadow. Burnt orange, gold, and white leaves and flowers surround the boulder behind the woman, and a view into a moss-green forest interior extends into the distance to our right.
    Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son, 1802, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.96

    Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son

    Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son

    Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1802 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.96

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