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Portrait Of A Young Lady In A White Dress C. 1730–1740; Attributed To Jeremiah Davison (c. 1695–1745), Oil On Canvas Painting
£3,450 $4,659 €4,058
What makes this portrait compelling is its directness: the sitter’s steady, intelligent gaze meets the viewer without theatricality, yet the painting never feels plain. The artist balances domestic intimacy—soft hair, an “undress” neckline, and an absence of showy jewellery—with quiet elegance. A warm, subdued ground pushes the head forward, while luminous whites and restrained crimson drapery create a refined harmony of tone and colour. Up close, the calm authority of the face and the assured handling of satin and shadow give the work a vivid sense of presence.
The sitter is shown in the fashionable idiom of early Georgian “undress” portraiture, prized for signalling refinement without court stiffness. She wears a pale silk or satin wrapper or “nightgown” (a term then used for less-formal dress rather than literal sleepwear), with a wide neckline softened by the chemise and a bodice drawn together with ribbon-tie or lacing. A deep crimson mantle—part studio convention, part status ...cue—warms the palette. Long, softly arranged hair, falling over one shoulder, completes the cultivated informality associated with private rooms and polite sociability.
The sitter cannot presently be responsibly named, but the ambitious oval format, the costume, and the richly carved gilt frame indicate a gentlewoman of means, for whom portraiture functioned as a social instrument as well as decoration. Costume and mode place the painting in the early Georgian decades, broadly the 1730s into the early 1740s, when “undress” portraits became especially desirable for their blend of intimacy and status.
A useful object-history clue is the stretcher stamp “F. Leedham / Liner,” a London picture liner and restorer active in the mid-nineteenth century: it shows that by the Victorian period the portrait was valued enough for professional relining. The most plausible attribution remains to Jeremiah Davison, a London-trained portraitist whose career—shaped by aristocratic patronage and mobility between London and Edinburgh—fits the market for refined gentry likenesses. The painting’s technical strengths support this: pale satin built through cool shadows and confident highlights, and a face rendered with economical softness—lucid eyes, blended cheeks, and a defined yet warm mouth—set against a simple warm-dark ground. For these reasons it is best described as Attributed to Jeremiah Davison.
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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1224741
Dateline of this antique is 18th Century
Height is 95cm (37.4inches)Width is 83cm (32.7inches)Depth is 7cm (2.8inches)
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