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Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
is an
oil on canvas
portrait
painted by
Thomas Gainsborough
between 1785 and 1787. Mrs. Sheridan (
Elizabeth Ann Linley
) was a talented musician who enjoyed professional success in
Bath
and London before marrying
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
in 1773 and abandoning her career. She was 31 when she sat for Gainsborough, dying from tuberculosis seven years later at the age of 38. The portrait was painted between 1785 and 1787, and, was exhibited at Gainsborough's studio at
Schomberg House
,
Pall Mall
in 1786. It was acquired by the
National Gallery of Art
in 1937.
Painting:
Thomas Gainsborough
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