Portrait of 'woman with a rose' Kemble seated on the President's chair

seated on the President's chair of the Royal Society

between Temple Bar and Chancery Lane

possibly pinstriped or pleated

Wellington and Peel (

the Thames is here depicted as dirty with the usual complement of dead dog and broken basket

Portrait of 'woman with a rose' Kemble seated on the President's chairFull length portrait of a young woman wearing an orange and dove grey dress with grey cloak. She holds a red rose in her right hand and supports her sash with the left. She wears a pearl necklace and hair band with matching square cut sapphire and pearl studs and armbands gathering back white bell sleeves and with a similar clasp worn at the waist. She has black hair styled into ringlets. There is a spaniel at her feet and a wooded landscape with a