Lot 63: Thomas Bardwell (East Anglia 1704-1767 Norwich, Norfolk)

Thomas Bardwell (East Anglia 1704-1767 Norwich, Norfolk)
Portrait of a girl, three-quarter-length, in a yellow dress and a blue shawl, holding a shell, other shells on the table beside her
signed and dated 'Bardwell .f. 1756.' (lower left, on the stone table)
oil on canvas
49 7/8 x 39 7/8 in. (126.1 x 101.2 cm.)

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Bardwell employed a very similar composition, with the shell still-life motif, in a Portrait of Lady Sophia Carteret, sold in these Rooms on 12 July 1990, lot 33.