£1,000 

English School:
Allegory of painting
Framed (ref: 6492)
Oil on a guilded ground

Tags: English School drawing artists at work men women 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Provenance: The Artist's Studio

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.336.

Traditionally Allegories of painting show the main protagonist as a women, inspired by a female muse though, to reinforce Patriarchal norms, overseen by a wise old man.  One of the most  Allegory's of Painting, is Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait,  La Pittura, also known as Autoritratto in veste di Pittura