John Collet (Collett) 1725-1780. 18th.Century British School Grey wash watercolour drawing of a young woman wearing a bonnet and quilted skirt, her hands in a muff. Circa.1770. 15.3 by 20.5 cms. Some cockling to sheet age discoloration and surface abrasion all to no real detriment. A similar example; a portrait of Lady Ranelagh was in the Derek Lockett Collection.
John Collet was a painter of mainly genre and low-life subjects. He studied at the St. Martin's Lane Academy and was pupil of Lambert. He was seen as the natural successor to William Hogarth and his works were popularized by engravings published by Robert Sayer and John Smith, and from 1777-81 by mezzotints published by Carington Bowles