Robert Shurlock Double Portrait Examples

While observing a portrait the audience should be attentive to the three major aspects which are; the size, the medium, and the condition of the portrait. The portrait Mrs. Robert Shurlock (Henrietta Ann Jane Russell, 1775–1849) and Her Daughter Ann size is a half-length portrait, the medium is Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas, and the condition of the painting is fine and sound. The figure of the portrait contains a lot of information. This is a double portrait. The gender of the sitters in the portrait are both females, one of them looks as if she is in her early or mid-20s. The second female is an infant that looks a couple month old. Their race is white and their ethnicity may be English or European. The woman wears a gossamer scarf on her head with some of her dark curls appearing. She has a pale hue, with rose pink cheeks. Her face is a diamond shape. Her eyebrows are thin and black, her eyes are wide and brown. Her nose is thin, her coral lips are thin and small. Her chin is intermediate, but it leaps outward. Her neck is long. Her skin appears to be very smooth and silky. She seems to have a well-built figure. She is wearing an elegant white gown with a crinkly, wavy fabric attached to the collar. The arms of her dress appear to be covering only half of her elongated right arm. She is also wearing a translucent black shawl with mottled darker spots on it. Her clothes are all made of gauzy material. The infant is pale and appears to have a stout and plump figure. She is
The space of the portrait is shallow. The landscape of the portrait is foreground because of the background just a plain hue of dark blue to a light blue. The artist combined two or more hues and applied one hue over another as a glaze to introduce or modify the colors. He used unique colored crayons each applied in distinct strokes and blended with a finger or stump. The background of the dark and shallow, while the sitter’s