French Silk Textile Portrait, Marie Thérèse of France, Louis XV s Daughter

Superb large English silk and wool portrait, A Mother and Her Four Children, after John Hoppner R.A., circa 1810-20, Within gilt frame. Silk over linen fabric ground, silk floss, worsted wool yarn, Merino wool yarn and oil paint. A remarkable silk picture with painted sky background and each figure with a painted face and hands with the remaining portions of the picture finished in wool. The design comes from a mezzotint after John Hoppner made in the 1790s. John Hoppner specialized in painting mothers and children. The picture depicts a large standing female figure dressed in a white dress and wearing a turban. She stands by two classical columns with her four children in front of her. The youngest child is sitting on the ground playing with her red shoe in her hands with a tambourine by her side. Her elder sister stands behind her. Both girls are dressed in Empire-style muslin dresses...

English Porcelain porcelain botanical plaque, Probably Derby Porcelain The framed porcelain square plaque is beautifully painted with a bouquet of flowers including roses, crocu...

Small Portrait of Madame de Fougeroux de Bondaroy, physiognomy of Edme Quenedey des Riceys (1756 - 1830). Measures: H: 22 cm, W: 21 cm, D: 2 cm.

Fine hand-painted depiction of Marie Antoinette, wife of French King Louis XVI, the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. This painting dates ca. 19th century, very lik...