A Conversation Piece depicting three young Ladies and a young Gentleman on a terrace; the ladies full-length in green and red striped dress with red bustle, pink dress and yellow and white dress respectively, wearing elaborate hats and plumed headgear in their powdered upswept hair, the gentleman in brown coat with moss-green breeches, powdered hair and pouring water from a jug into a pond, one lady seated beside a bird cage and one lady cradling a dove in her arms, a basket of flowers on the chequered terrace before them; pillar and Italianate garden landscape background
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ITALIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1775/1780
A Conversation Piece depicting three young Ladies and a young Gentleman on a terrace; the ladies full-length in green and red striped dress with red bustle, pink dress and yellow and white dress respectively, wearing elaborate hats and plumed headgear in their powdered upswept hair, the gentleman in brown coat with moss-green breeches, powdered hair and pouring water from a jug into a pond, one lady seated beside a bird cage and one lady cradling a dove in her arms, a basket of flowers on the chequered terrace before them; pillar and Italianate garden landscape background
oval, 5 in. (128 mm.) high, turned black wood frame
A Conversation Piece depicting three young Ladies and a young Gentleman on a terrace; the ladies full-length in green and red striped dress with red bustle, pink dress and yellow and white dress respectively, wearing elaborate hats and plumed headgear in their powdered upswept hair, the gentleman in brown coat with moss-green breeches, powdered hair and pouring water from a jug into a pond, one lady seated beside a bird cage and one lady cradling a dove in her arms, a basket of flowers on the chequered terrace before them; pillar and Italianate garden landscape background
oval, 5 in. (128 mm.) high, turned black wood frame