Portrait of a young boy, half-length, in a red coat and white collar; and Portrait of a young girl, half-length, in a white dress, wearing a white cap with flowers and light pink ribbons

The pictures appear to be in their original carved and giltwood frames supplied by Thomas Fentham. (see label on the stretcher of the portrait of a boy). Fentham was one of the most fashionable frame makers of the Period. A comparable label is to be found, datable to 1779-80, on the frame of George Romney's Portrait of Mrs Beal Bonnell in the (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) which would confirm our dating of the present pictures to circa 1780.