FILE: 20_The Honourable Mrs. Graham_Gainsborough.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - The Honorable Mrs. Graham - BAROQUE PERIOD IN ENGLAND

DESCRIPTION: GAINSBOROUGH. PORTRAIT. He was darling of the upper class, a portraitist who came along when the appetite for large portraits was thriving. Increased demand for these to go on long walls beside high staircases. This painting is in the European French Style = like French Rococo, she's "frenchified" with powdered hair, feathers, elaborate costuming, antique column and base with Venetian landscape.