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The Toilette
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The Toilette
- Object:
Oil painting
- Place of origin:
Great Britain (probably, painted)
- Date:
ca. 1849 (painted)
- Artist/Maker:
Leslie, Charles Robert (R.A.), born 1794 - died 1859 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
oil on panel
- Credit Line:
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
- Museum number:
FA.125[O]
- Gallery location:
Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries, case EAST WALL
This picture was also called The Necklace. The sitter was reputedly a beauty of mixed Irish and Spanish descent, famous for her 'raven black hair and arched eyebrows'. She also sat for Leslie's picture of Griselda (see FA.128[O]).
Leslie was brought up in the United States, but worked in London. He was a friend and biographer of the landscape painter John Constable.