Such an interesting portrait, not only for its inherent beauty and skill, nor for its heavy dore bronze easel-back frame, but for the fact that it is ID'd on back and noted that the granddaughter of this lovely English woman is her artist. Stunning portrait, really, in gouache on wafer, sealed to a paper backing which reads: "Mrs. Paget of Newberry ______ County of Somerset, copied from a miniature by __________(?Jargen?) by her granddaughter Marianne Caroline Goblyn, 1837". Painted in the year of Queen Victoria's coronation, one wonders if this woman wore this outfit to ceremonies of that year. What a fine artist she was to have mastered the difficult genre of the miniature portrait. The result of her loving labor is pristine and elegant and perfectly preserved now for nearly 200 years.
Very good to excellent condition for age and type, the painting is flat, undamaged, larger than most (measurements noted on our photos, and is neatly framed in a fine early 19th century French dore bronze easel frame with bow top, itself a valuable antique. The blue card mat is not original, but shows the painting off very nicely. She is as I bought her, a wonderful one from my collections.
