Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1800s.
Meanwhile the infant, rather touchingly, waves at the viewer from across the centuries. The fact that the identities of the sitters are unknown and we do not even know the gender of the child somehow renders the portrait more poignant.
The father of the child, husband of the lady, a legal gentleman, is also on this website, our ref: 8635.
RAMSAY RICHARD REINAGLE, (19 March 1775 - 17 November 1862) was an English portrait, landscape, and animal painter, and son of Philip Reinagle, he was a pupil of his father, whose style he followed. He exhibited at the Royal Academy as early as 1788. He afterwards went to Italy, and was studying in Rome in 1796. Subsequently he visited Holland in order to study from the Dutch masters.
Reinagle exhibited portraits and landscapes in oil at the Royal Academy, of which he became an associate in 1814, and an academician in 1823.
PLEASE NOTE: There is also similarity to the work of the American artist REMBRANDT PEALE (1778-1860). Peale was an artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties.
SIZE: 40.75 x 39.75 inc. frame.
PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Somerset.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1800s.
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Sold....double Portrait of a Lady and Child C.1820; Circle of Reinagle.
