George Kellaway After Thomas Stewardson, Lady In Costume Playing The Mandolin

George Kellaway After Thomas Stewardson, Lady In Costume Playing The MandolinThis early 19th century stipple engraving by George Kellaway (fl. 1821 1828) is after a painting by Thomas Stewardson (1781 1859). She turns and looks towards the heavens with hair tumbling over her lavish renaissance dress. Jewels adorn a headpiece, topped with a feather. While her right hand gently plucks the strings of a fine mandolin. Given the outfit, its likely that shes an actress depicted by Stewardson following a successful stage appearance.

It’s carefully observed and rendered by an artist with a deep admiration for the natural world

The painting is signed in the lower left and housed within a frame that’s possibly its original

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the sun illuminates a golden channel

In the centre of the composition

It’s been painted in an impressionistic style with quick daubs of oil paint cleverly suggesting the finer details

Corbet has used a broad brush and plenty of energy to render the violent sea - with its heavy waves rolling in and breaking on the shore

he stated ‘it is never too late to try and do better’

which stand before a rustic annexe

George Balmer was born in North Shields and would’ve known this location well

Christian Tilemann-Petersen had a skill for capturing the mood within quiet interior scenes and several of his works have appeared at leading auction houses

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