# Portrait of a Lady

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CLOSTERMAN, John](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/closterman-john-r47dae4c12d224b>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 126 x 103 cm

## Commentary

The sitter was presumably a member of the family or circle of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, for whom Closterman painted a group of portraits in classicising dress circa 1700 at his Dorset home. The finest of these, the double portrait of the Earl with his brother Maurice representing their mutual interest in moral philosophy, is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

## Related artworks

- [Maurice and Anthony Ashley-Cooper](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/closterman-john-r47dae4c12d224b/maurice-and-anthony-ashley-cooper-r85176ad28a4d8e>)
- [Portrait of Guilford Killigrew, When a Boy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/closterman-john-r47dae4c12d224b/portrait-of-guilford-killigrew-when-a-boy-r7d15b6297129be>)
- [Portrait of Thomas and George Dashwood](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/closterman-john-r47dae4c12d224b/portrait-of-thomas-and-george-dashwood-rfe1f5cf6eeee07>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)