| Woman in Blue | |
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| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | ca. 1775–1785 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 76.5 cm× 63.5 cm(30.1 in× 25.0 in) |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
The Portrait of a Lady in Blue, [1] or Woman in Blue, [2] is an oil-on-canvas portrait of an unknown woman, executed in the late 1770s or early 1780s by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough during his fifteen-year stay in Bath, Somerset. [2] [3]
Some art historians have identified its subject as the Duchess of Beaufort, daughter of Edward Boscawen. [1] It is now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, to which it was left in 1916 by Alexei Khitrovo, making it Gainsborough's only work in Russia. [2]
