Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
1892 · Oil on canvas · Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
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About this work
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
- Year
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 127 × 101 cm
- Collection
- Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
- Movement
- Realism
Gertrude Vernon, recently married to the Scottish baronet Sir Andrew Agnew, leans back in a French armchair in a white dress with a lilac sash, a pale Chinese silk hanging behind her, and looks straight out of the picture. Sargent painted her in London in 1892, when she was twenty-seven, and the portrait's success at the Royal Academy the following year brought him a stream of British sitters. Its loose, quick handling of satin and chiffon against the steady modelling of her face is Sargent at his most fluent. The painting has been in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh since 1925.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A cool lilac-and-white portrait with a direct gaze, for a bedroom, dressing room or sitting room in a dark wood or thin black frame. It holds a soft grey, sage or blush wall and pairs with Sargent's Madame X for a portrait wall.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1892)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- bedroom, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×16, 18×24, 24×32 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×32 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
