Keywords: Vanloo.jpg Margaret 'Peg' Woffington Actress about 1738 Jean-Baptiste van Loo V A Museum no 601-1882 Techniques - oil on canvas Place - England Dimensions - Height 111 cm Width 88 cm Depth 9 8 cm Object Type - Although this is technically a portrait the image of a young woman at a window with a pet bird in a cage was a frequently employed motif in popular paintings and prints of the late 17th and early 18th centuries Sometimes the women depicted were actresses or courtesans People - Margaret Woffington 1718-1760 popularly known as `Peg' and the most famous actress of her day enjoyed a lively and unconventional life Various artists painted her and this is almost certainly a portrait of her although many pictures of attractive young women of that period are wrongly thought to be of her This portrait is not signed but the delicate treatment of the flesh tones and the sensitive rendering of the costume justify the attribution to Jean-Baptiste van Loo 1684-1745 He was so successful as a portrait painter by 1738 he had to give five sittings a day at his studio in Henrietta Street Covent Garden and prospective sitters were forced to apply six weeks in advance Source http //collections vam ac uk/item/O77685/painting-margaret-peg-woffington-actress/ 1738 Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia by SreeBot other versions PD-art-100 Original upload log page en wikipedia Vanloo jpg Upload date User Bytes Dimensions Comment 2008-01-03 13 07 UTC VAwebteam 39927 bytes 504×645 <small>Margaret 'Peg' Woffington Actress about 1738 Jean-Baptiste van Loo V A Museum no 601-1882 Techniques - oil on canvas Place - England Dimensions - Height 111 cm Width 88 cm Depth 9 8 cm Object Type - Although this is technically a portrait the </small> Jean-Baptiste van Loo |