John Collet 18th.Century British School Watercolour Drawing Study Of A Fashionable Young Woman Circa. 1770

John Collet 18th.Century British School Watercolour Drawing Study Of A Fashionable Young Woman Circa. 1770John Collet (Collett) 1725 1780. 18th. Century British School Grey wash watercolour drawing of a young woman wearing a bonnet and quilted skirt, her hands in a muff. Circa. 1770. 15. 3 by 20. 5 cms. Some cockling to sheet age discoloration and surface abrasion all to no real detriment. A similar example; a portrait of Lady Ranelagh was in the Derek Lockett Collection. John Collet was a painter of mainly genre and low life subjects. He studied at the

Century reverse glass painting painted in China for the Western market

A 1750-1824 Portrait of Mrs Sarah Anne King and her Daughter Anne Maria

in order to live with her legal father Molé

Robert Monckton 1726–1782 was an officer of the British Army and colonial administrator in British North America

etchings and watercolours are a valuable record of the Parisian life in the eighteenth century

At the time this portrait was made her husband was in Command of the Achille and fought with distinction at the Battle of Trafalgar

4 cms diameter

5 cms sheet overall

The Art Journal critic James Dafforne described him in 1892 as ‘one of the most popular of our figure-painters in water-colours’

The Taming Of The Shrew

17 by 25 cms

and worked on his "Panorama" in The Strand