Reindeer Antiques has dated this piece to the Georgian era.
Richard Purcell after Sir Joshua Reynolds
Presented in an ebonised oak frame.
Maria is dressed in the fashionable Turkish style with a turban on her head and wearing a floral dess in this portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds. She sat for Sir Joshua Reynolds on more than one occasion and Reynolds also painted her daughters in the famous conversation piece The Ladies Waldegrave. Maria was widowed in 1763 and remarried to the Duke of Gloucester, brother of King George III.
Young Corbut was one of several pseudonyms used by Richard Purcell to try and evade prosecution for copyright infringement.
Reindeer Antiques has dated this piece to the Georgian era.
Specialists in english antique furniture from the early seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Based on kensington church st.
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Maria, Countess of Waldegrave Reverse Glass Print After Joshua Reynolds
