Beschreibung:

Manner of John Everett Millais (1829-1896). Portrait of a Young Woman, 1875, watercolour on wove paper, laid onto blue paper mount with oval aperture, head and shoulders portrait, half profile to left, of a young girl wearing a blue bow under her white collar, her fair hair coiled and pinned up at the back of her head, monogrammed and dated 1875 lower right, aperture size 27.7 x 20.5 cm (10 7/8 x 8 1/8 ins), sheet size 38.3 x 27.3 cm (15 x 10 3/4 ins), mount size 44.4 x 34.5 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 ins) (Quantity: 1) The present work is attributed by the J. E. Millais specialist Malcolm Warner to the short-lived artist and engraver Thomas Morten (1836-1866), although this watercolour appears to be dated 1875 (according to an email supplied to a previous owner). The sitter was also previously identified as Effie Gray James née Millais (1858-1911), daughter of Sir John Everett Millais