A Scarce 18thC Reverse Glass Print Portrait of a Lady c.1770

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A Scarce 18thC Reverse Glass Print Portrait of a Lady c.1770Origin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1770 Height: 20 Width: 16 The very pretty reverse glass painted printed portrait of a lady of the period, shown half length seated, the whole in its original period gilt frame and surviving from the third quarter of the eighteenth century. The portrait does show its age with some hairline cracks as photographed. There are some small losses to the frame. The original pine boarded back

Provenance: Formerly of the Estate of Henry G

5” or 12” at seat

showing a brilliant handling of light and atmosphere

as well as David Walliams' grandfather

A cholera epidemic hit the Eastover area in the late 1840s with 88 people buried in a remote part of the churchyard marked by a large stone

the portrait far more detailed and precise in terms of the brushstrokes

the work signed and dated 1891 Ambrose Dudley

but importantly all benefiting from a beautiful suppleness and patination that material of this type of this age so beautifully radiates

” – Mel BirnkrantA scarce survivor

The current incumbent

we present Tinker’s hoof preserved as a lesson to over watering ones self

or alongside other Liberty-period decorative arts