page_title: Pinkie (painting)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pinkie (painting) / Origin / History
caption_attribution_description: The Exhibition Room at en:Somerset House: This engraving was published as Plate 2 of Microcosm of London (1808) (see File:Microcosm of London Plate 002 - Exhibition at Somerset House.jpg). This room is now part of the en:Courtauld Gallery.
context_page_description: Pinkie is the traditional title for a portrait made in 1794 by Thomas Lawrence in the permanent collection of the Huntington Library at San Marino, California where it hangs opposite The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough. The title now given it by the museum is Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie". These two works are the centerpieces of the institute's art collection, which specialises in eighteenth-century English portraiture. The painting is an elegant depiction of Sarah Moulton, who was about eleven years old when painted. Her direct gaze and the loose, energetic brushwork give the portrait a lively immediacy.
context_section_description: Pinkie was first displayed at the 1795 Royal Academy summer exhibition. According to an official Huntington Library publication:
  Many of the finest works by the most gifted English artists of the period were large formal portraits. Although most of the pictures were commissioned by the sitter, many were also intended for public display. They made their first appearances at the annual Royal Academy exhibition, which was then the principal artistic event of the year. A somewhat grand and rhetorical air was considered appropriate for this type of painting, and this artistic intention should be kept in mind when looking at the portraits in the Huntington collection.
  The painting was one of the last acquisitions of California land developer Henry E. Huntington in 1927. In 1934 the Huntington foundation constructed a new main gallery as an addition to the former residence for the collection's major portraits. Except for brief intervals during travelling exhibitions, Pinkie has hung there since that time.
caption: The 1800 Royal Academy exhibition at Somerset House
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