Gilt framed oil on panel 'subject picture' of a girl holding a bird cage.

After Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.

The companion piece to Age of Innocence

Early 19th Century.

 

“Unlike the majority of his large portraits, which tend to incorporate passages by his studio, Reynolds’ smaller subject pictures were invariably entirely autograph. Nonetheless, an insatiable pubic appetite for the pictures lead them to be extensively copied both during and after his lifetime and, indeed, the large number of extant replicas of the present composition attests to its popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries.”