18th-Century English School Antique Oil On Canvas Portrait Painting Of A Lady

Circle of Tilly Kettle. An 18th-18th-Century English school antique oil on canvas portrait of a Lady.

The unknown sitter is portrayed wearing a hat, her hair in ringlets and wearing a red silk dress.

About Tilly Kettle

Tilly Kettle (1735–1786) was a portrait painter and the first prominent English portrait painter to operate in India.

After working in the Midlands and London, he became one of the first British painters to risk a long visit to India, where he spent the years 1769–76 and made a fortune painting nabobs and princes. He died on his way out a second time, having found it much harder to achieve success in England. Kettle's style was derivative (of Reynolds, Cotes, and Romney), but he ‘ranks fairly high among the lesser portraitists of his time’ (Ellis Waterhouse).

Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press).

This particular portrait has been undertaken by a very accomplished but unknown artist.

She displays very well.

Provenance - Unknown.

Condition - Presented in its original gilt-gesso frame of oval form. The canvas is in good order. There are age related losses to the frame. Please refer to the images. A further detailed condition report is available upon request.

Size - Height 68 cm x Width 48 cm (27" x 19")