Henry PICKERING (1720 - 1770, English)

Henry PICKERING (1720 - 1770, English)

Elizabeth Tyndall (1720-1747)

c.1740

oil on canvas

29 x 24 inches, inc. frame

Henry Pickering was primarily a portrait painter often likened stylistically to Thomas Hudson and Sir Godfrey Kneller. He spent some time in Italy learning his trade and returned to England in 1740. Hudson and Pickering were both known to use the drapery painter Joseph van Aken. From 1759 he was based in Manchester, where he died in 1771.

This magnificent portrait shows a very elegant woman, wearing a fashionable grey dress decorated with blue ribbons, richly draped in a pink silk shawl and bearing a headdress made of beads. The treatment of the dress is masterly and compares well with portrait in the Burton Constable Hall (Elizabethan country house in Skirlaugh, England).