Swedish School Portrait Of Maria Birgitta Beige Medium: Watercolour Overall size: 5½”

Medium: Watercolour Overall size: 5½” x 7” / 14cm x 18cmYear of creation: c

They’ve also accumulated some dirt over the years

Very dark with various paint losses and scuffs

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

Swedish School Portrait Of Maria Birgitta Beige Medium: Watercolour Overall size: 5½”A 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