About this artwork
Fearne Gardiner was the only daughter of Dr John Gardiner, President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. She married George Kinnear, of the Edinburgh-based Kinnear banking family. They had two children together and this portrait was painted around 1805, a few years after the birth of their second child. She is aged around 34 and is fashionably dressed with a sheer black shawl falling in soft folds around her shoulders.
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artist:Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823) Scottish
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title:Fearne Gardiner, Mrs George Kinnear (1771 - 1846)
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date created:About 1805
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:89.50 x 69.50 cm; Framed: 114.90 x 95.30 x 12.50 cm
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credit line:Bequest of Miss Kinnear 1919
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accession number:NG 1223
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Sir Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn
Originally apprenticed to a goldsmith, Henry Raeburn showed enormous artistic talent as a young man. In 1784 he moved to London where he met the important portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. He spent some time in Italy but returned to Edinburgh in 1787 where he began painting portraits of the rich,...
