Portrait of a Young Man Type:stretched canvas while the warmth and humanity

while the warmth and humanity in the girl's unsentimental gaze continues undiminished

The identity of the girl has also been shrouded in uncertainty

Charles Small Pybus (1766-1810) was MP for Dover from 1790 and Lord of the Admiralty 1791-7 and of the Treasury 1797-1803

Engraved') Bt 'Heugh'

16/19 March 1993

Portrait of a Young Man Type:stretched canvas while the warmth and humanityThis miniature, on ivory, was probably painted in the 1820s. The head of this anonymous sitter appears well finished, the remainder very slipshod; the background and coat seem to have been repainted, possibly because of damage cause by moulding. The former attribution to Beechey is impossible, while the sitter, who appears to be under twenty years old, cannot be Bourgeois as a label on the back states.