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, highly-movemented brushwork give the portrait a lively immediacy.
The painting is an elegant depiction of Sarah Barrett Moulton, who was about eleven years old when painted. These two works are the centerpieces of the institute's art collection, which specialises in 18th-century English portraiture. Pinkie is the traditional title for a portrait of 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.
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