Portrait of Mrs Elizabeth Edgar
by GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas, Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm
Mrs Elizabeth Edgar is depicted half-length, wearing a blue dress. The Edgar family lived at The Red House, an Elizabethan house at Westerfield, a few miles outside Ipswich and the family became one of Gainsborough’s most important patrons during his sojourn in Ipswich in the 1750s.