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"title": "The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.",
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"did_you_know": "Francis Cotes described his pastel works as \"decorative in a very high degree in apartments that are not too large; for having their surface dry, they partake in appearance of the effect of Fresco, and by candle light are luminous and beautiful beyond all other pictures.\"",
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"description": "A founding member of the Royal Academy and one of the leading fashionable portrait painters of his generation, Francis Cotes was a pioneer of pastel painting in England. Here, in her marriage portrait, the young Lady Mary Radcliffe is regal in a Turkish-inspired, peacock blue mantle decorated with gold and trimmed with ermine. Pearls and feathers adorn her hair and a d\u00e9collet\u00e9 scarlet bodice reveals an expanse of porcelain skin.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Three Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 9 (1947): 213-36.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
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"citation": "Chong, Alan. European and American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
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"citation": "Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London: Unicorn Press, 2006.",
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"citation": "Jeffares, Neil. \"COTES, Francis: Essay, Named Sitters A-H\" Dictionary of Patellists before 1800, Online Edition. 2008.",
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