#ArthurDevis

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1 year ago

In 1745, English artist Arthur Devis painted this full-length portrait of Alicia Maria Carpenter calmly wearing a silver ruched ivory silk dress with gold trim and pannier (hoop skirt) with extremely wide sides and flat front extending the skirt to be wider than her height. This style originated in Spanish court dress of the 17th century, spread thanks to portraits by Diego Velázquez, and became popular with the social elite after hitting the Paris fashion scene in 1718-1719. Carpenter's dress uses panels of ruched white satin between strips of gold (possibly lace). The revers (lining facing outside) extends to her open low neckline and up over her shoulders. In a room with wood floor, stone (or stone-like) walls and columns, the slender aristocrat stands with her hands at her narrow waist next to a small wooden round table with her folded fan and a single long white elbow-length glove on top. She is in the process of reaching to take off the matching glove from her left arm. Her overly-pale skin and facial features are delicate, with a rounded face, expressive eyes, a straight nose, and a gentle smile. Her lips with dark red rouge are full and soft. Her dark brown hair is styled in a fashionable neatly-arranged series of tight curls to her shoulder and topped with a looping headdress of small pearls that matches her earring with a larger shiny pearl. Devis was a Lancashire-born British artist from a dynastic family of artists descending from his father Anthony Devis including Arthur's half-brother painter Anthony Devis and Arthur's painter sons Thomas Anthony Devis and Arthur William Devis.

Portrait of Alicia Maria Carpenter, Later Countess of Egremont by Arthur Devis (English) - Oil on canvas / 1745 - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (California) #womeninart #dress #art #oilpainting #portrait #ArthurDevis #FAMSF #artwork #Devis #womensart #portrait #baroque #rococo #portraitofawoman

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