Thomas Gainsborough (Follower), Portrait Of Miss Sparrow

Thomas Gainsborough (Follower), Portrait Of Miss SparrowThis exceedingly charming early 19th century half length portrait by a follower of Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (1727 1788) depicts a lady traditionally identified as Miss Sparrow. Its after the original, which is at the Met Museum in New York and was previously believed to be a study by Gainsborough himself. Dressed in a blue coat edged with ermine, exquisite ruby and pearl brooch, high powdered hair trimmed with further pearls, and a wrapping gown,

Signed in the top right

Often returning to religious subjects

dressed in an exquisitely ruffled top

1770Condition: Minor paint loss and abrasions

But before long

This charming pair of mid-19th-century French School portraits depicts two grandmothers

Never short of inspiration

Overall size: 32½” x 25½” / 82cm x 65cm

Signed/dated and held within a splendid baroque revival gilt frame with extensive ornamentation

The portrait was produced in around 1830 when she was 17 and bears an inscription on the reverse

in part due to his wife’s ‘spendthrift lifestyle’

they were produced by British painter