Painted in 1837, the year of Queen Victoria’s coronation, this young lady wears a black dress with a pleated bodice and belted waistline with a cornflower blue wrap, her dark hair in fashionable ringlets. She sits before a classical column with a red drape to the side.*The portrait is signed I.T. bottom right and in full on the reverse. It is set in a quality gold plated frame that is glazed on the reverse to show the artist’s signature. Both the miniature and the frame are in fine condition.*John Turmeau was born in 1777 into an artistic family, his father being a jeweller and his grandfather an artist. He was only 17 years old when he first exhibited at the Royal Academy. As a young man he moved to Liverpool where he married Sarah Wheeler and with her had seven children including twin girls. Turmeau was a founding member of the Liverpool Academy. He also ran a print shop and, strangely, a tobacconist shop and glass warehouse. Turmeau’s work is critically acclaimed for...