Lady Lemon (1747–1823)
Artist: George Romney (British, 1734–1802)
Original Dimensions: 50" x 40"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (mid- to late 1780s) "Jane Buller, the sitter in this elegant portrait, married William Lemon in 1771 and bore ten children. Lord Lemon commissioned George Romney to paint half-length portraits of himself and his wife in 1788, when Lady Lemon was forty-years old. She sat for the painting on six occasions in Romney’s London studio. Posing the sitter in an armchair against a landscape background became a common convention in later Georgian British portraiture. Romney portrays his subject with a gentle touch." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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