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DAILY TELEGRAPH, 17TH NOVEMBER 1902.

IN the course of a comprehensive notice on Messrs. Agnew's eighth annual exhibition, the "Daily Telegraph" makes a most eulogistic comment on Gainsborough's masterpiece, the full-length portrait of the Hon. Anne Duncombe, which is describes as such a brilliant, joyous, and astonishingly vivid picture, that in its presence criticism is silenced by admiration; a feeling which finds its well-motived expression in the following words of the critic: "Alert and provocative in her costume of changeful blue and gleam of white, the lady stands forth conscious of her youth, her beaute du diable, her supreme fashion and eloquence. "This picture belongs to the group of Gainsborough which is typically exemplified in the famous portrait of Mrs. Graham in the National Gallery of Scotland. Here Gainsborough has the elegance, the modishness of his adored Van Dyck, and also the irrepressible vivacity, the joy of life of Franz Hals."