FDA-P.504-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.504-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton ('Pinkie')
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Full length portrait of a woman in a pale dress; shoulder length curly brown hair with a pink hat with long ribbons
Comments
Pinkie was painted in London by Lawrence in 1794 when she was nearly twelve. Lawrence was paid £160 for the painting and its frame, designed by him. In 1873 it was purchased by Octavius Moulton-Barrett (Pinkie’s nephew) and hung at Westover, his house in the Isle of Wight, with the Millais portrait of two of his own children. On his death in 1910, the portrait was sold and the proceeds could be divided up among the family. The picture was taken out of its frame, a copy made by Menzies, and the original work was sold to Charles Romer Williams for £20,000. In November 1926 the original was sold at auction for the then world-record price for a portrait of £77,700. Bought by Duveen, it made its way across the Atlantic to the Huntington in California where it now hangs opposite Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’. Sadly Pinkie herself died at the age of twelve. Menzies was an important copyist, and painted portraits in his own right. His best known original works include his portraits of George V and Lady Wolseley.
This copy of 'Pinkie' is still thought to be housed in the frame made for the oiriginal version of the painting.
This copy of 'Pinkie' is still thought to be housed in the frame made for the oiriginal version of the painting.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 1457mm
width (sight size): 1008mm
height (frame): 1828mm
width (frame): 1377mm
width (sight size): 1008mm
height (frame): 1828mm
width (frame): 1377mm
Production
Person
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Nadia Moulton-Barrett (c.1920-2010); by whom Bequeathed to Eton College in 2010
Previous ownership
