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Portrait sketch, 1831, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake V&A Museum no. E.1009-1945

Techniques - Pencil on paper

Place - England

Dimensions - Height 30.16 cm Width 25.08 cm

Object Type - This is a drawing in graphite on paper by an accomplished amateur artist, Elizabeth Rigby. It shows an unknown fashionable young lady and is probably a portrait of a friend or relative of the artist. Rigby's initials 'ER' can be seen lower-right, with the date of the sitting: 'April 17 1831'.

People - Elizabeth Rigby was the daughter of a Norwich doctor. She was taught drawing and watercolour by the local Norwich artist John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), who, like many artists, supplemented his meagre income from commissions by teaching. Though Rigby became a notable writer, particularly on travel and art, she never referred to her former teacher. And despite her success as a writer, she once told a friend that she preferred to paint. In 1849 she became Lady Eastlake on her marriage to the Royal Academician and Director of the National Gallery, London, Sir Charles Eastlake.

Ownership & Use - In 1831, when this portrait was drawn, Rigby was living with her mother at Framingham, south-east of Norwich, having returned from a two-year trip to Germany in 1829. Portraiture, of course, was a favourite genre for many amateur artists. But, just as many well-to-do artistic women and men did before photography became a popular hobby, Rigby also recorded her travels in Britain and abroad.

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