overblown flower.In Anne Rich, Lady Barrington, probably byDixon, the colour is hot and the blues metallicin their affected brilliance. But a signed maleportrait by that hand, of Sir Henry Blount,shows that Dixon could analyze male characterin masterly fashion. He may have taken thecynical… … ANNE CARR, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD (1615—1€BY RICHARD GIBSON lines of drawing too emphatic to be ofeffect. But Flatman can give his own view ofhis sitter, while Dixon, flourishing 1667-1708,takes the conventions of Lely and debases them,sometimes exaggerating the type in femaleportraiture to a repellent…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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