Large 19th century portrait of a redhaired girl wearing a pink dress, oil on canvas by George Sheridan Knowles. Excellent quality and condition portrait of the girl seating in pink dress. Faintly monogrammed GK top left and presented in a beautiful handmade gilt frame with a foliate wrap border. Original untouched condition.
Measurements: 35" x 30" framed approx
George Sheridan KNOWLES
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1863, in Manchester; died 1931.
Painter, watercolourist. Portraits, genre scenes.
George Sheridan Knowles was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, and an associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street Gallery and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours from 1885, and was awarded a jury commendation at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900.
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