Lot 852: James Ramsay (English, 1786-1854), "Portrait of a

James Ramsay (English, 1786-1854), "Portrait of a Young Girl", 1842, oil on canvas, signed lower center "Jas. Ramsay/ fecit 1842", 36 in. x 27 3/4 in., in a good carved giltwood frame.

Note: This highly characteristic painting shows a young girl seated in a landscape, almost identically to the right-hand figure in Ramsay's "Three Sisters" of 1844 The painter's monumentally scaled three-quarter-length portrait of "Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto" was offered in these rooms on January 30, 2010 (Lot 277).