Cocktails with a Curator™: Beechey's 'Elizabeth Sophia Baillie'
In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator™, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon enjoys a Great Maiden’s Blush cocktail while discussing a 1795 portrait of Elizabeth Sophia Baillie (née de Vismes) by Sir William Beechey. A work of mysterious origin—and thought for a century to be by the English portraitist John Hoppner—it was only recently attributed to Beechey by Eloise Owens during her time as a curatorial assistant at the Frick.
Cocktail Recipe
Great Maiden's Blush
Equal parts of:
dry gin
lemon juice
elder flower cordial
on the rocks
Top with rosé champagne
Audiences under 21 are encouraged to join with a non-alcoholic drink.
Mocktail Recipe
elderflower cordial
tonic water
garnish with a sprig of mint
