Oil on canvas (lined), unsigned, a half-length portrait of the blithe lady wearing a pink gown with flowers at her bust and adorning her hair, housed in a period gilt wood frame with ornate applied composition ornament, inscribed on the verso of the canvas "Lady Abercorn / By John Opie," also retaining an old paper label from The Exchange Gallery of Manchester reading "I, the undersigned, Guarantee this painting to be a Genuine work by John Opie R.A. / Description Lady Abercorn / Painting or Drawing oil painting Size 20 x 35 / Signed George Taylor."

SS 29.5 x 24.5 in.; DOA 37.5 x 32.5 in.

The Collection of Albert Koonce Harrison, Charlotte, North Carolina

$2,000 - 4,000