Lucy Ebberton Type:unstretched canvas The skill of works such

The skill of works such as this lies in their combination of profuse variety and minute details

a Dutch painter often depicting the effects of a fire in a nocturnal landscape

the identification being confirmed by provenance and by the signet ring with the sitter's arms

A copy is in the Staatliche Kunsthalle

gilt framed

Lucy Ebberton Type:unstretched canvas The skill of works suchEngraved by J. McArdell, 1746 65, as the work of Knapton. The sitter is identified in an inscription by Horace Walpole on his own copy of the McArdell as an engraving, which states that she was the wife of 'Capt Grieg of the Marines'. Her identity is otherwise obscure. The costume suggests a date in the late 1740s.