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Ref: 3682
A good primitive or English naïve, oil on canvas, in original Regency frame, dating to circa 1820. Probably a farmer's daughter posed in a typical country house setting with rustic view to exterior.A sensitive restoration and cleaning has revealed the fresh Georgian colours, pinks, whites, blues, the warm reds and greens, and the lustre of the hair and fine skin tone.
Itinerant or professional portraitists would offer a price tariff. Here the body, arms and shoulders dress, necklace, are sketched in rapidly and create a slightly stiff, 2-dimensional effect but it's artfully done & there is a fresh, painterly quality that is appealing especially to post-Manet eyes. What the client paid for, the face, is more finely wrought showing the classical training of the artist and yet a freshness pervades the whole & the work coheres as this is evidently the face of an ordinary country girl from 200 yrs ago looking bonny & optimistic in her sunday best with ringlets.
Not relined, restored sensitively to showroom condition, under our direction.
English c.1820
H: 81.5cm (32.1in)
W: 70cm (27.6in)
D: 4cm (1.6in)
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