Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a yellow dress with white frills, holding a flower, in a landscape

Details

Joseph Highmore (London 1692-1780 Canterbury)
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a yellow dress with white frills, holding a flower, in a landscape
oil on canvas
127 x 101.8 cm.
in a period pierced giltwood frame, carved with c-scruls and foliage

Provenance

L.F.J.C. Craven; Christie's, London, 7 April 1922, lot 92, as 'Highmore', (£19.19.0 to Leger).

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Brian Allen of the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph (written communication, 21 August 2009). He dates the picture to the early 1740s.

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