# Miss Beatrice Townsend

By [John Singer Sargent](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/john-singer-sargent.md>), 1882.

## Details

- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 79.4 x 58.4 cm (31 1/4 x 23 in.) framed: 97.8 x 74.1 x 3.2 cm (38 1/2 x 29 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/96999-miss-beatrice-townsend>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Impressionism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/impressionism.md>), [Realism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/realism.md>)

## Image

![Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned young girl wearing an ink-black garment with a cream-white collar and a coral-red sash and necklaces holds a terrier dog as she looks at us in this vertical portrait painting.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-98ac9c94c09a9afb/full.jpg?v=a102439393804cf956ce416612e09664a4bebc4a484c734feb49dbae942e956c>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2006.128.31. CC0 Open Access.
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

[Canonical HTML page](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/art/miss-beatrice-townsend>)