(Theophila Palmer)

John Raphael Smith after Joshua Reynolds

(Theophila Palmer)

London, John Boydell June 24^th 1778

Mezzotint

380 x 280 mm

Some light spotting

£220

Theophila “Offy” Gwatkin (née Palmer; 15 May 1757 – 4 July 1848) was a British painter. She is described as an amateur artist and is best known for pictures painted of her by her uncle Sir Joshua Reynolds. She also compiled, added a preface, footnote glosses and a dictionary of dialect terms to her mother’s, Mary Reynolds, A Devonshire Dialogue