Lot 68: HENRY PICKERING (BRITISH, FL. 1740-C.1771)

HENRY PICKERING (BRITISH, FL. 1740-C.1771)
Portrait of a young girl, half-length, in a gold dress with a blue wrap, holding a basket of flowers
signed and dated 'H.Pickering/Pinxit 1759' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 24½ in. (76.3 x 62.2 cm.)

The Long Gallery, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.

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Henry Pickering (d. in or before 1771) was primarily a portrait painter often likened stylistically to Thomas Hudson and Sir Godfrey Kneller. Hudson and Pickering were both known to use the drapery painter Joseph van Aken.