Portrait of a Young Lady
Michael William Sharp
- Art Funded
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 88.9 x 69.8 cm
- Vendor
- Executors of the late Sir Edward Ford
The ermine robe suggests she may be from a noble family. Sharp moved to Norwich about 1783 and met John Crome during his time there. He later painted Crome's portrait which now hangs in the museum and became president of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1817.
Provenance
Mrs R Clifford-Turner; Christie's, 1973; Sir Edward Ford.