Christopher Tombs Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
Wonderful quality and lovely colours. Beautifully painted complexion on this young ladies face. Lovely green velvet jacket with salmon pink silk trim. Hanging in a stunning carved gilt frame.
Measurements are: 33 inches x 38 inches to include the frame.
Wonderful portrait to enhance any room.
This portrait was painted by a follower of the known artist John Opie, (born May 1761, St. Agnes, Cornwall, Eng.
Opie showed a remarkable talent as a young man. He became the protégé of the poet John Wolcot, and enjoyed a brief popularity as a fashionable portrait painter in the Reynolds tradition. In 1786 he began a series of seven pictures for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. His portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Christopher Tombs Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
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Beautiful 18th Century Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady in the Manner of Opie
