Swedish School Portrait Of Maria Birgitta Beige Very dark with various paint

Very dark with various paint losses and scuffs

Very tatty with various losses and abrasions

22¾” x 18” / 58cm x 46cm

was also an artist

while his comrade is leaning forward with his hands on the boat

Swedish School Portrait Of Maria Birgitta Beige Very dark with various paintA provincial mid 19th century portrait of a seated lady wearing a black dome shaped dressed with a white collar. Her right arm is resting on a table with several red books, which indicates her literacy. Her style fits perfectly alongside other portraits from the 1840s. It was a decade whereby dome shaped dresses became increasingly more voluminous and hair was parted perfectly in the centre. Women also often wore pendants or cameos attached to long