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The painting is signed and dated Jn Lewis Fect/1752. Lewis was a portraitist and stage painter, also active in Dublin and London, who had previously painted portraits of the sitter and her sister in 1737. Here Diana appears with the crescent moon on her head, and holding a bow and arrow, symbols of the goddess of hunting. She was the daughter of Sir John Pryce (d.1761) of Newtown Hall, Newtown, Montgomeryshire. He was a famous eccentric, who kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives in his bedroom until his third wife insisted on their removal.

National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff

Title

Diana Pryce (b.1731), with the Attributes of Diana

Date

1752

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127.3 x W 101.2 cm

Accession number

NMW A 1721

Acquisition method

purchased at Sotheby's, 1992

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed and Dated:(lower left in black paint): Jn Lervis fecit (?) (see photograph in file) 1752 Inscribed: No Labels, Watermarks, Frame Data, etc: On stretcher: (in chalk, twice): LOT 34 .18.11.92 Label: Agnews.st.no B1916. John Lewis Diana Pryce as Diana the Huntress Label: H093005 Label: 5 24360 UT WIL (?)

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National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff

Cathays Park, Cardiff (Caerdydd) CF10 3NP Wales

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Artist or maker

John Lewis

active 1736–1776

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