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Caitríona lighting up the red carpet at the IFTAs tonight in Dublin.

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Although intended for public display, Lawrence's Elizabeth Farren, shown in 1790 under the title “Portrait of an Actress,” is perhaps more intimate than many modern family photographs. The Irish actress Farren made her London debut in 1777 and soon became a very popular comic performer. This portrait depicts her as an elegant young woman at the height of her career, before she retired from the stage to marry her aristocratic protector. Lawrence’s bold brushwork captures the sheen of satin and the plushness of fur, but his vivid, romantic painting displeased the actress, who asked the twenty-one-year-old artist to alter the depiction of her unfashionably slender figure. Elizabeth lamented that her friends thought she looked too thin and bent in the middle. Her face, nose, and neck were long, her shoulders and hips unfashionably narrow. Lawrence rather cleverly disguised certain of these traits, and the visual evidence suggests that he never took the canvas back to correct what she perceived to be its defects. Lawrence, an amateur orator and actor, brought to Elizabeth Farren's likeness the implication of motion and speech and an awareness of the role of the viewer in an imagined dialogue. The slight torsion of her upper body and her sidelong glance suggest collusion between the observer and the observed. The saturated coloring of the landscape background and the low horizon line draw attention to her quirky pose and the delicate powdery hues reserved for her face and elegant figure. She advances toward, rather than occupying, the center of the picture field, her torso sharply foreshortened, as if seen from below. Her skirt trails off the canvas in the foreground. The slight formal imbalance confers vitality, and the surface, too, is animated by the energetic and flexible combination of veils of transparent tone, highlights and details modeled in trails and globs of pigment, plus raking strokes made with the bristles of a dry brush.

Elizabeth Farren, Later Countess of Derby by Sir Thomas Lawrence (British) - Oil on canvas / 1790 - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) #womeninart #art #portrait #fineart #SirThomasLawrence #oilpainting #ThomasLawrence #portraitofawoman #irishactress #britishartist #themet #met #metny #lawrence

Born #Onthisday 1913 in #Dublin #Irishactress Geraldine Fitzgerald who won a Daytime Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award & a Tony Award. She was also inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame @clodaghfinn.bsky.social