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This triple portrait shows three seated figures in the foreground: the man, Thomas Barrett-Lennard, sits behind a table to the left; his wife, Anna Marie, sits on a stone bench to the right; both gaze at their daughter, Barbara Anne, who is central to the image. Barbara Anne is a young girl with very pale skin and dark eyes; her dark hair is tied back. She wears a green-blue gown with a white apron and a pink bow at the centre of the neckline. She looks directly outwards and smiles. Her left hand rests on her mother’s lap; in her right hand, she holds a bunch of pink, red and white carnations. Her mother has a pale oval face and dark hair; she wears a white silk gown and a shawl of red cloth. Her right arm extends behind her daughter and rests on the table. Thomas Barrett-Lennard sits in a slightly raised position to the left of his daughter. He is also pale-faced and dark-haired. He wears a dark red jacket trimmed with fur. Behind him, positioned on the ledge of a window opening, is a brown vase of pale flowers. Dark foliage with white clouds and blue sky is pictured through the opening to the right.