Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1740

  • William Hogarth, English, 1697-1764

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 30 1/8 × 25 3/8 inches (76.5 × 64.5 cm)
  • 37 3/4 × 32 3/4 × 3 3/4 inches (95.9 × 83.2 × 9.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

27.11

On View

  • British, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Lord Taunton (England)

(Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, England)

1927, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [for £1900]

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William Hogarth, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1740, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 27.11.