# Isabella Wolff, in 19th-century Britain

Thomas Lawrence painted this in 1803–15, aged about 34. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> This portrait depicts Isabella Wolff, one of Sir Thomas Lawrence’s closest friends. Shown contemplating a printed image of the Delphic Sibyl from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Wolff assumes a pose that cleverly echoes another Sibyl from that same work.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1803–15
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 128.2 × 102.4 cm (50 1/2 × 40 5/16 in.); Framed: 156.2 × 130.5 cm (61 1/2 × 51 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.4461
- 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

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