Lot Essay
The present picture has an old attribution to William Payne (fl.1776-1830). Although Payne was predominantly a watercolourist and landscape painter, it is not implausible that he painted portraits in oil.
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Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Lady Anne Ward, half-length, in a white dress and straw bonnet with a blue ribbon
Details
English School, circa 1790
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Lady Anne Ward, half-length, in a white dress and straw bonnet with a blue ribbon
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
in a carved and gilded eighteenth-century frame
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Lady Anne Ward, half-length, in a white dress and straw bonnet with a blue ribbon
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
in a carved and gilded eighteenth-century frame
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