Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
Her upswept hair is secured with a pretty white and blue spotted headdress.
Dating to the mid-eighteenth century, the portrait is set in a gilt metal frame with a twisted border. The attractive reverse reveals lilac silk under a pair of pierced and engraved gilt metal birds on a nest.
Gervase Spencer’s career as a miniaturist apparently began whilst working as a footman in a London household during the 1740s. A talented draughtsman, he was self-taught and became a prolific artist working competently on ivory and in enamel. He exhibited at the Society of Artists. Spencer died at his home in Great Marlborough Street on 30 October 1763.
Framed size: framed, 51 x 43mm
APHA Registration: JY3BP9YZ
Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
Small portraiture of character & historical interest
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Gervase Spencer, Charming Portrait with Pierced Reverse
