Lot 144: Attributed to Robert Home (Hull 1752-1834 Cawnpore)

Attributed to Robert Home (Hull 1752-1834 Cawnpore)
Portrait of a young woman, three-quarter-length, seated in a white muslin and lace dress, a book in her right hand, a table with needlework to her left
oil on canvas
30¾ x 26¼ in. (78.2 x 66.8 cm.)

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Robert Home was a pupil of Angelica Kauffmann, and also studied in Italy. He worked for a time in Dublin and London, before travelling to India in c.1791, where he remained until his death in 1834. The present portrait would appear to date to Home's Indian period.