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heading in green ink: Criticisms of the Picture.

symbol in green ink: Ŧ The Gainsborough is interesting as showing how this artist delighted in blue dresses and draperies, thus practically confuting the celebrated dictum of Reynolds about the unwisdom of making the principal mass of any but a warm colour. Miss Duncombe's dress is as blue as that of the Blue Boy himself; indeed, now that the picture has been cleaned, it is much more so. The distinction of her pose, the animation, the brilliancy of dress and landscape make this a very noble picture. symbol in green ink: * But little short of a masterpiece is the brilliant joyous and astonishing vivid full-length, The Hon. Frances Duncombe, by Gainsborough. Alert and provocative in her costume of changeful blue and

symbol in green ink: Ŧ The Times, symbol in green ink: * The Daily Telegraph.

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