Stylish in Pink and Fur

Portrait of a young lady with auburn curls wearing a pretty pink dress with short puffed sleeves and a wide neckline with pearl drop earrings and a fur boa draped around her shoulders. Signed on the obverse ‘Parsey 1829’ and again on the reverse ‘A Parsey / London / 1829’. Decorative gilt metal frame.

Arthur Parsey (active 1829-1837) was a Professor of Miniature Painting and Perspective in the Burlington Arcade, London. He also published a book on the art of miniature painting and exhibited at the Royal Academy.