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FDA-P.504-2014

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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 Thomas Lawrence in 1794, when the sitter, Sarah 'Pinkie' Goodin Barrett Moulton, was nearly twelve. Lawrence was paid £160 for the painting and its frame, which was designed by the artist. In 1873, the portrait was purchased by Octavius Moulton-Barrett (the sitter's nephew) and hung at Westover, his house in the Isle of Wight, along with the Millais portrait of two of his own children. On his death in 1910, the portrait was sold and the proceeds divided among the family. The picture was taken out of its frame, a copy was made by Menzies, and the original work was sold to Charles Romer Williams for £20,000. In November 1926 the original (without its frame) was sold at auction for the then world-record price for a portrait of £77,700. Bought by art dealer Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1869-1939), 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 soon after the work was painted, 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 housed in Lawrences frame, made for the oiriginal version of the painting.

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Content (person)

Dimensions

height (sight size): 1457mm
width (sight size): 1008mm
height (frame): 1828mm
width (frame): 1377mm

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Production

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Collection of Nadia Moulton-Barrett (c.1920-2010); by whom Bequeathed to Eton College in 2010
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