Wonderfully Naive Early 19th C. Portrait of Young Woman on Silk, Framed set of people of which this one is

of which this one is emblematic

but Eric Oglander at tihngs posted a pair some time ago which I had held in my memory and looked up

but the face looking somewhat more masculine to me

were father and son opthomologists with a practice near St

Wonderfully Naive Early 19th C. Portrait of Young Woman on Silk, Framed set of people of which this one isSo many portraits, and faces, specifically, to fall in love with! The style of this young woman's blue dress makes me think this gouache and watercolor on silk dates to the 1820s or so, with the oval cut shape of the silk akin to the format of painted miniatures. But how much nicer for it to be a full length portrait, especially for including this exuberant bouquet spreading like a fan in her raised hand and with charmingly extended pinky wrapped