Attributed to Andrew Plimer (1763-1837). Portrait of a young lady, miniature watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, a head and shoulders portrait, half profile to left, of a young lady wearing a white muslin dress with high frilled neck, with pearls in her grey-powdered curls and at her neck, 65 x 53mm (2.5 x 2ins), oval yellow metal frame with hanging loop set with faux seed pearls (92 x 64mm), the reverse with glazed aperture containing a lock of hair on opalescent glass, with beaded blue glass oval panel set with the initials 'WCG', some displacement of decoration Andrew Plimer had the good fortune to be apprenticed to miniature portraitist Richard Cosway (1742-1821) after running away from home with his brother and spending two years travelling with a group of gypsies.
Attributed to Andrew Plimer (1763-1837). Portrait of a young lady, miniature watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, a head and shoulders portrait, half profile to left, of a young lady wearing a white muslin dress with high frilled neck, with pearls in her grey-powdered curls and at her neck, 65 x 53mm (2.5 x 2ins), oval yellow metal frame with hanging loop set with faux seed pearls (92 x 64mm), the reverse with glazed aperture containing a lock of hair on opalescent glass, with beaded blue glass oval panel set with the initials 'WCG', some displacement of decoration Andrew Plimer had the good fortune to be apprenticed to miniature portraitist Richard Cosway (1742-1821) after running away from home with his brother and spending two years travelling with a group of gypsies.
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