A young Lady, facing left in white dress with blue sash, pink stole draped around her shoulders, holding a straw hat with blue ribbon in her left hand, standing three-quarter length with her left elbow resting on a mossy bank; foliate and landscape background
Details
MARY GREEN, NÉE BYRNE (1776-1845)
A young Lady, facing left in white dress with blue sash, pink stole draped around her shoulders, holding a straw hat with blue ribbon in her left hand, standing three-quarter length with her left elbow resting on a mossy bank; foliate and landscape background
rectangular, 6 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (160 x 129 mm.), ormolu frame with leaf and berry border and ribbon and bow cresting
A young Lady, facing left in white dress with blue sash, pink stole draped around her shoulders, holding a straw hat with blue ribbon in her left hand, standing three-quarter length with her left elbow resting on a mossy bank; foliate and landscape background
rectangular, 6 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (160 x 129 mm.), ormolu frame with leaf and berry border and ribbon and bow cresting
Provenance
de la Hey Collection; Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1968, lot 128 (£420). S. Bulgari.
Literature
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, I, p. 295 (praised as 'charming'), II, p. 45, illustrated pl. 132, no. 349.
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 551.
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 551.
Exhibited
Edinburgh, The Arts Council Gallery, British Portrait Miniatures, 1965, no. 325, illustrated pl. 78 (lent by Major R. M. O. de la Hey).