18th.Century Chinese Export Reverse Glass Painting Portrait Of A Lady Circa.1780 Women Artists Eminent English Watercolourist

Eminent English Watercolourist

In 1922 he won the coveted Rome Scholarship for engraving

Provenance: Inscribed to reverse of canvas Lewis Kay Esq

The art of reverse glass painting consists of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image

58 by 74 cms image

18th.Century Chinese Export Reverse Glass Painting Portrait Of A Lady Circa.1780 Women Artists Eminent English WatercolouristA fine Chinese export reverse painting on glass of a European Lady, Canton, Late 18th. Century. The subject of this reverse painting (possibly Marie Antoinette of France) is very likely to be derived from an 18th century engraving sent to China to be copied as part of the China Trade between Europe and the East. Circa. 1780. 31 by 38 cms.