Early 19th Century Oil Painting English Lady With Blue Eyes Follower of Sophie Frémiet

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1 Fine Art Early 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait Beautiful Young Nubile English Lady Follower of After Sophie Frémiet.
Subject … more 1 Fine Art Early 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait Beautiful Young Nubile English Lady Follower of After Sophie Frémiet.
Subject front profile head portrait of a most beautiful classical traditional English Young Lady.
Her face is incredible so elegant & pretty, with cherry red lips and blue eyes.
Such master fine brushstroke control.
Unsigned.
So finely painted oil on canvas laid on board.
Set in a rather ornate later gilt frame.
Hanging thread on the back ready for home display.
Circa early 19th century.
Provenance gallery label verso.
Biography of Sophie Frémiet her Youth and art training
Born in Dijon, her father was the assistant curator of the city's museum, a patron of artists and a fervent Bonapartist. Sophie was taught by Anatole Devosge, a former pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Her father supported the work of a young Dijon sculptor, François Rude. In the aftermath of the second Bourbon Restoration in 1815, the Frémiet family, along with many other Bonapartists, left France for Brussels (now Belgium, then part of the newly created United Kingdom of the Netherlands). Here Sophie studied under another French exile, her former teacher's master, Jacques-Louis David. She worked as David's copyist and exhibited her own works in Brussels and in Antwerp. In 1820, her Belle Anthia was a great success at an exhibition in Ghent.
On 25 July 1821, Sophie married her father's former protégé François Rude. The couple would have only one child, Amédée, who died young in 1830 at the age of eight. In Brussels Sophie was a successful artist, receiving many commissions, including several for the former royal palace at Tervuren, lost in the fire that destroyed it. Her works were neoclassicist in style, largely mythological, although she produced a small number of religious paintings. Her portrayal of the nymph Pirene as mother in 1823 was awarded a gold medal at a show in 1824. It was sold at Sotheby's for USD 685,500 in 2022.
In 1826, the Rude family returned to France, settling in Paris. Here Sophie began to paint historical scenes. She served as the model for the female figure representing the Genius of War her husband's frieze The Departure of the Volunteers (also known as La Marseillaise), which forms part of the Arc de Triomphe. François Rude died in 1855, and Sophie devoted the rest of her life to exhibiting and publicising her husband's work.We select & sell our paintings based solely upon quality & significance.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame approximate

High (49cm)
Wide (40cm)
Depth (4.5cm) less