A dramatic imagining of a red medieval style gown (and a mysterious crystal ball that, along with the skull on the table, could be a memento mori symbolizing mortality) by English Pre Raphaelite Girl in Red Dress National Museum of African American History and Culture Portrait of a Young Lady in a Red Dress by Austrian painter Eduard Friedrich Leybold 1824. I used this painting to help illustrate an old article of mine on 19th century shawls Woman in a Red Dress 1246502 National Trust Collections