as I cannot gratify my self with the Original, I must beg the favour of You to have her picture drawn at full Length by one of the best Masters, in an easy Careless attitude'.
On 16 November 1793 Sarah's grandmother, Judith Barrett, wrote from Jamaica to her niece Elizabeth Barrett Williams, then living on Richmond Hill in Surrey, asking her to commission a portrait of 'my dear little Pinkey. Sarah was sent to Mrs Fenwick's school at Flint House, Greenwich, along with other children from Jamaican colonial families. In September 1792, Sarah and her brothers sailed to England to get a better education. Inside her family, she was called Pinkie or Pinkey.īy the time Sarah was six, her father had left the family and her mother was left to raise the children, Sarah and her brothers Edward (1785–1857) and Samuel (1787–1837), with the help of her relatives. She was a descendant of Hersey Barrett, who had arrived in Jamaica in 1655 with Sir William Penn and by 1783, the Barretts were wealthy landowners, slave owners, and exporters of sugar cane and rum. Sarah was baptised on, bearing the names Sarah Goodin Barrett in honour of her aunt, also named Sarah Goodin Barrett, who had died as an infant in 1781.
She was the only daughter and eldest of the four children of Charles Moulton, a merchant from Madeira, and his wife Elizabeth. Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born on 22 March 1783, in Little River, St. Her direct gaze and the loose, energetic brushwork give the portrait a lively immediacy. The painting is an elegant depiction of Sarah Moulton (1783–1795), who was about eleven years old when painted. These two works are the centerpieces of the institution's art collection, which has notable holdings of eighteenth-century British portraiture. The title now given it by the museum is Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie". 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 normally hangs opposite The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
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