Mrs. Richard Alexander Oswald (Louisa Johnston, born about 1760, died 1797) ca. 1794 Sir Henry Raeburn British, Scottish The portrait was painted about a year after the sitter’s marriage in 1793 to Richard Alexander Oswald. In praise of her beauty, the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote a song, "O, Wat ye Wha’s in Yon Town." The setting sun brilliantly illuminates the sky through a screen of tree trunks and foliage, a device Raeburn favored in the mid-1790s. The subject is shown seated outdoors holding a book, lost in thought.. Mrs. Richard Alexander Oswald (Louisa Johnston, born about 1760, died 1797) 437361

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Mrs. Richard Alexander Oswald (Louisa Johnston, born about 1760, died 1797) ca. 1794 Sir Henry Raeburn British, Scottish The portrait was painted about a year after the sitter’s marriage in 1793 to Richard Alexander Oswald. In praise of her beauty, the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote a song, "O, Wat ye Wha’s in Yon Town." The setting sun brilliantly illuminates the sky through a screen of tree trunks and foliage, a device Raeburn favored in the mid-1790s. The subject is shown seated outdoors holding a book, lost in thought.. Mrs. Richard Alexander Oswald (Louisa Johnston, born about 1760, died 1797) 437361

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