Collector's Journal — English School
The Mystery of an 1830s English Portrait: Possibly Sarah Losh
1830s English art 1830s portrait antique oil painting antique painting British art history Cumbrian art English portrait painting English School female portrait historic portrait James Lonsdale James Lonsdale portrait portrait research Sara Losh Sarah Losh Sarah Losh painting Sarah Losh portrait St Marys Wreay Wreay
Could this 1830s English portrait depict Sarah Losh? We examine the sitter, costume, James Lonsdale connection, Bellmans provenance and the evidence behind this intriguing identification.
Sir Walter Raleigh: How an Elizabethan Icon Was Reimagined in Georgian Britain
18th Century Art Art Research British Portraiture Collectors Journal Elizabeth I Elizabethan England Elizabethan Portraiture English School Georgian Art Georgian Britain Historical Portraits Lennard Portrait National Portrait Gallery Old Master Portraits Provenance Research Roanoke Sir Walter Raleigh Tower of London Virginia Walter Raleigh Woolley & Wallis
An intimate eighteenth-century portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh reveals how the image of one of Elizabethan England’s most celebrated figures survived through paintings, engravings and Georgian fascination with Britain’s national past.
