Portrait of a lady wearing a grey dress and pearl necklace, said to be a Charleston Lady.
Oil on canvas laid down on board. 23 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches (58.7 x 49.8 cm). Provenance : Christie's New York, 17 May 1995, Lot 193. John Wollaston was the son of a painter, possibly a portraitist, of the same name. It is known that in 1733 he was living in London, and some of his paintings hang in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. In the early 1740s Wollaston came to America and was definitely in New York between 1749 and 1752, where he was very influential to other Colonial portrait painters, including John Hesselius, Benjamin West and Matthew Pratt Wollaston was also an itinerant painter, working in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina where he could have painted this attractive young lady. Wollaston flattered his subjects, depicting them in classical style with richly rendered clothing. John Wollaston left for England via the West Indies in the spring of 1767.
Portrait of a lady wearing a grey dress and pearl necklace, said to be a Charleston Lady.
Oil on canvas laid down on board. 23 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches (58.7 x 49.8 cm). Provenance : Christie's New York, 17 May 1995, Lot 193. John Wollaston was the son of a painter, possibly a portraitist, of the same name. It is known that in 1733 he was living in London, and some of his paintings hang in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. In the early 1740s Wollaston came to America and was definitely in New York between 1749 and 1752, where he was very influential to other Colonial portrait painters, including John Hesselius, Benjamin West and Matthew Pratt Wollaston was also an itinerant painter, working in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina where he could have painted this attractive young lady. Wollaston flattered his subjects, depicting them in classical style with richly rendered clothing. John Wollaston left for England via the West Indies in the spring of 1767.
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