Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
Although it lacks the artist’s trade label, the impression of it is still legible as a mirror image on the reverse side of the plaster base within the frame.
Thomason worked mainly in Dublin where he was advertising ‘Most Striking Likenesses in Miniature Profile’ and in the north of England where he was boldly advertising in 1796 for ‘all persons who never could procure a good likeness before, to one more trial’ when the artist promised ‘the fullest satisfaction, or will take nothing for his trouble’.
Framed Size: 130 x 111mm
Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
Small portraiture of character & historical interest
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Thomason Silhouette Painted on Plaster, Ca. 1780
