Barbara, Lady Johnstone of Westerhall, in a blue grey dress signed 'A Ramsay' and dated 1748 (lower right) oil on canvas, feigned oval 69 x 57.5cm (27 3/16 x 22 5/8in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE: By family descent to Sir Frederic Johnstone, Eighth Baronet; Aitken Dott, from whom bought in 1940; Lord Whitburgh, and by descent; LITERATURE: Smart/Ingamells, 'Allan Ramsay, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings' New Haven, 1999, ill no 142, p 252
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