ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN JAMES MASQUERIER, R.A. | Portrait of a lady

On the art market, Paris, before 2000, where acquired.

John James Masquerier was born to French parents in London. He specialised in portraits, and was heavily influenced by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir Henry Raeburn - to whom the present work is clearly indebted. Indeed, a label on the reverse of the stretcher indicates that this portrait was formerly identified as Mrs H.W. Lauzun, whose likeness Raeburn depicted in circa 1796 in a painting now in the Tate.¹

1 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/raeburn-mrs-h-w-lauzun-n01837