Bust-Length Portrait Study of a Young Woman with a Striped Shawl, Circle of Joseph van Aken, ca. 1740–60

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Bust-Length Portrait Study of a Young Woman with a Striped Shawl, ca. 1740–60, Black and white chalks, brown ink and graphite on blue laid paper, squared in graphite, sheet: 10 x 8 13/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Circle of Joseph van Aken (Flemish, Antwerp (?) ca. 1699–1749 London (active Britain)), After training in Antwerp, the young Van Aken went to London, where he specialized in painting draperies. The leading portraitists there, including Joseph Highmore, Thomas Hudson, and Allan Ramsay, often painted only a sitter's face, relying on Van Aken to finish the rest of the figure

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Size: 4421px × 5005px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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