Miss Greenway.

Richard Purcell (pseud C. Corbutt) after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Miss Greenway.

(London, R. Sayer c. 1770)

Mezzotint

355x250mm

£180

Miss Greenway sits half length, facing slightly to the right, dressed en deshabillée with flowing hair, shift and dressing gown with huge, pearl embroidered sleeves. Her right elbow rests on a velvet cushion. Daughter of John Greenway, Keeper of His Majesty’s Stores at Portsmouth Dockyard, she married in 1771 at Kingston in Hampshire, the Hon. Francis Napier (3^rd son of the 5^th Baron Napier), who died soon after at Dublin in 1779.