Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-henry-raeburn-437" aria-label="More by Sir Henry Raeburn" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Henry Raeburn</a>
Mrs Downey
Bequeathed by Robert Dudgeon 1883
actions: postures and motions
adults
clothing and personal items
Downey, Mary
fine arts and music
hat
Hepburn, Mary
individuals: female
landscape
named individuals
objects
people
plinth
portraits
relief
shawl
standing
woman
wooded
<p>Raeburn was the leading Scottish portrait painter of his day. He was influenced by his English predecessor, Joshua Reynolds, but worked in a looser style, more like the work of his younger contemporary, Thomas Lawrence. He liked to paint directly on to the canvas, without preliminary drawing. Even his grandest portraits have an informal, spontaneous air.Mary Hepburn of Haddington was two years older than Raeburn. She married a Mr Downey of Preston Pans and the portrait must date from shortly afterwards, around 1787-90. The couple’s status is apparent from her fashionable dress and the landscape with a classical pedestal.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
1 September 2002 – 30 September 2003
2003-09-30
1 September 2002 – 30 September 2003
2003-09-30
2002-09-01
Kenwood House (London, UK)
2002-09-01
Reciprocal Loan (for Gainsborough)
Loan-out
25 July 2005 – 26 July 2009
2009-07-26
25 July 2005
2005-07-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-07-25
Romantic Painting in Britain
Collection based display
Mrs Downey
support: 2375 × 1499 mm
Bequeathed by Robert Dudgeon 1883
<p>Raeburn was the leading Scottish portrait painter of his day. He was influenced by his English predecessor, Joshua Reynolds, but worked in a looser style, more like the work of his younger contemporary, Thomas Lawrence. He liked to paint directly on to the canvas, without preliminary drawing. Even his grandest portraits have an informal, spontaneous air.Mary Hepburn of Haddington was two years older than Raeburn. She married a Mr Downey of Preston Pans and the portrait must date from shortly afterwards, around 1787-90. The couple’s status is apparent from her fashionable dress and the landscape with a classical pedestal.</p>

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actions: postures and motions adults clothing and personal items Downey, Mary fine arts and music hat Hepburn, Mary individuals: female landscape named individuals objects people plinth portraits relief shawl standing woman wooded