Dinah Dalton

This young lady is named Dinah Dalton and she was twenty years old when this portrait was taken, possibly to mark her betrothal or her marriage. Dinah is wearing a rose pink silk dress with a draped bodice and a fur-trimmed royal blue shawl. Her brown hair is curled and arranged in tight ringlets.

The portrait is presented in the original gilt-metal frame with a decorative border and hanging ring. The frame is engraved on the reverse with her details – ‘Dinah Dalton / December 1829 / AEt 20’.