A young lady, by Samuel Andrews, signed & dated 1804.

Set in the original ebonized wood frame with ormolu mount. The portrait is signed on the obverse, S. Andrews 1804.

3 1/8 inches (8 cm) high.

Samuel Andrews (1767(?)-1807) spent most of his professional life in India. He is first recorded as being in Madras in 1791. There he moved into the house previously occupied by John Smart, whose style he occasionally copied. By 1798 Andrews was in Calcutta where his distinguished clientele included Marquis Wellesley and Lord Cornwallis. He is recorded in Dinapore in 1800. Most of his strong en grisaille portraits date from this period. Andrews died in Patna, in 1807, aged forty.