James Green 1771-1834. British School Early 19th.Century. A substantial watercolour portrait of a young woman in a white empire dress, a watch chain and seal fob on a chain below her breast, her shawl held by a lacepin. She stands in a summer landscape with deer in the distance and the sea beyond. She holds a parasol, her hand resting on a sundial, hydrangeas and poppies at her feet. Signed and dated lower right Jas.Green 1808. 46.5 by 58.5 cms. Image. 65 by 77 cms overall framed. Provenance. With Abbott and Holder London.
James Green was apprenticed to Thomas Martyn, who taught painting, at 10 Great Marlborough Street London. At the end of his apprenticeship, Green entered the Royal Academy Schools where he attracted the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in time copied many of his pictures. Green gradually attained a good reputation for his own portraits in watercolour and established a fashionable and sucessful practice in both London and Bath.
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