Oil on canvas (lined), circa 1740, three-quarter length portrait of a woman wearing a deep green scoop neck gown and an adorned cap, a black and white spaniel rests on a red pillow to her left. Housed in a later gilt wood frame with applied composition ornament.

SS 34 x 26.5 in.; DOA 41.25 x 34 in.

Collection of Mrs. Eleanor Yates, Asheboro, North Carolina Originally purchased by Mrs. Yates' uncle, John Stoakley of Memphis, Tennessee, from an art gallery on Bond Street in London during the late 1930s to early 1940s.

This painting is the companion portrait to lot 287, depicting this sitter's daughter.

$2,000 - 4,000