More from my personal collections, this superb miniature portrait has the artist's signature bottom right border, and while some earlier owner made it out enough to write it on back on an adhesive tab, I can't read it either place. Perhaps you can. I've enlarged it for you to try. I bought her in Paris at auction, and have loved her for decades, with her bonnet and bows and off-shoulder blue cape. Even the chair is fun.
Very good to excellent for age and type, her only detraction is the upper right corner, where someone has, likely unaware how fragile the painting are, rubbed the wafer and wiped away the area. Painted in gouache on thin natural wafer, she is flirty and chaste at the same time, as is the case with beautiful female teenagers throughout time, isn't it? Her fashion dates her to c.1830s, and it seems likely she was an English girl on Grand Tour when she had her portrait done in France. I don't think I noted measurements on the photos, but the frame is 3 1/8" x 2 1/2", and her face is just 3/4" from chin to hairline. It's always fascinating to me how much detail the miniaturists were able to capture in these beautiful paintings.
