# Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, in Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence painted this in 1790, aged 21. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> The celebrated comic actress Elizabeth Farren turns to look at us as she walks through a windswept landscape, wrapped in a white silk cloak lined with fur and carrying a muff.

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## The work

- Date: 1790
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 94 in. × 57 1/2 in. (238.8 × 146.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 50.135.5
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Lawrence](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-lawrence), English, 1769–1830

Lawrence was a child prodigy in pastel portraiture and largely self-taught. He moved to London as a teenager, exhibited a full-length of Queen Charlotte at the Royal Academy at twenty-one, and succeeded Joshua Reynolds as Painter in Ordinary to George III.

7 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Thomas Lawrence's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-thomas-lawrence?hang=748) (8 works)
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