3-080-327 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Mrs Grimston, 1756. Mrs Grimston was married to John Grimston, a gentleman of Yorkshire. She is painted wearing a white silk gown decorated with blue bows over a very pale blue undergown which is decorated with lace. She wears a thin black choker around her neck and feathers in her dark hair. This portrait was probably painted at the time of the sitter's wedding. Just two years later, most probably as the result of complications during childbirth, Mrs Grimston died. She was just twenty six years old.