Rue des Fontenelles has dated this Victorian Female Oil Portrait to the 19th Century.
It is mounted in an attractive pierced gilt frame. The painting is attributed to Augustus Leopold Egg (British, 1816-1863).
Augustus Leopold Egg RA was a British Victorian artist, and member of The Clique best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family.
Egg's early paintings were generally illustrations of literary subjects. Like other members of The Clique, he saw himself as a follower of Hogarth. His interest in Hogarthian moral themes is evidenced in his paired paintings 'The Life and Death of Buckingham', which depicted the dissolute life and sordid death of the Restoration rake George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Yet his paintings often took a humorous look at their subjects, as in his Queen Elizabeth Discovers she is no longer Young (1848).
Dimensions - 36 x 28 cms
Rue des Fontenelles has dated this Victorian Female Oil Portrait to the 19th Century.
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Portrait of a Young Lady - Antique Oil Painting
