Attributed to Catherine Read (1723-78)
Princess Caroline Matilda (1751-1775) c.1764
Pastel on paper | 61.6 x 48.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 400904
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This is one of a pair of pastels (OM 1220-1, 400904-5) which were probably executed for the sitters' mother, Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales in c. 1764, possibly by Catherine Read.
Princess Caroline Matilda is shown wearing pastel pink sack-dress with bows on the bodice, her blond hair worn up with pink and white flowers and rope of pearls in it, another rope at her throat.Provenance
First recorded in the Queen's Bedchamber at Buckingham Palace in 1790, as Cotes
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pastel on paper
Measurements
61.6 x 48.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
82.5 x 70.0 x 7.1 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
Princess Caroline Matilda (1751-1775), later Queen of Denmark
