Attr. George Clint, Portrait Of Lydia Augusta Allen medium An early 20th-century oil on

An early 20th-century oil on canvas depicting a rosary maker working on a street in Loudres

Areas of professional restoration

Size 8” x 10” / 20cm x 25cm

Stylistically it draws upon the imagined landscapes of French neoclassical painters

Reasonable

Attr. George Clint, Portrait Of Lydia Augusta Allen medium An early 20th-century oil onA beautiful portrait of Lydia Augusta Allen (1810 1890) wearing a sumptuous black dress, gold bracelet, and small purple rose. Lydia hailed from Leamington in Leicestershire and married John Roy Allen (1798 1875), a Cambridge educated barrister from Somerset. Following their wedding, John Roy began plans for a large marital home in Taunton, which became known as Lyngford House. This quirky building (completed around 1844) had a central octagonal