Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the Georgian era.
One of those commissions was this striking portrait of a lady with tumbling auburn curls.
The portrait resides with a narrow gilt metal mount within a gold frame with a seed pearl surround, the reverse glazed to show a lock of pale hair laid on cream silk.
The son of a Dublin jeweller, Charles Robertson (1760-1821) was trained from an early age to create hair designs, possibly for portrait miniatures painted by his elder brother Walter. Clearly a precocious child, he was only fifteen when he exhibited his first miniature painting. Apart from a few years spent in London, Robertson worked in the city of his birth where he also organised an annual fine art exhibition.
Size: framed, 68 x 58mm + bail
APHA Registration: M86LVTPT
Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the Georgian era.
Small portraiture of character & historical interest
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Irish Miniature Portrait by Charles Robertson
