A Super Stylish Lady

A confident and striking portrait of a richly-attired lady in a black dress and chip hat decorated with flowers and foliage tied with a white ribbon bow. Gilt-metal frame.

John Cox Dillman Engleheart was a nephew and pupil of George Engleheart. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1828. He was a wealthy man and a popular painter but ill-health obliged him to retire from his profession when just aged forty-four.