Portrait of a young girl, half-lengh in a white dress with a blue sash, a book in her right hand, in a landscape; and Portrait of a young girl, half-lengh, in a white dress with a blue sash, roses in her hands, in a landscape

J. Sutton is known to have been active from 1798, the date of the present pair of portraits, until 1824. He came from the Georgian market town of Cockermouth, on the edge of the Lake District and home of Wordsworth House.