Portrait of a Young Girl
Selina Skull
Category
Textiles
Date
1810
Materials
Silk, watercolour paint, glass and giltwood
Measurements
660 x 520 mm
Order this imageCollection
Benthall Hall, Shropshire
NT 509911
Summary
Needlework picture, 'Portrait of a Young Girl'. Silk, watercolour large oval needlework full-length portrait of a young girl, wearing a neo-classical style white gown, facing, with one hand resting on a small square piano. Standing in an interior before draped pillar, vista to garden and orchard to the right. Glazed in giltwood frame, black and gilt mount on glass. Inscribed - Smart (stitched in silk on the piano). 1810 (circa).
Provenance
Benthall collection.
Marks and inscriptions
Smart (stitched in silk on the piano)
Makers and roles
Selina Skull, embroiderer Smart (fl.c.1810), embroiderer