Janet Tower Storey (Aberdeen 1756-1835), Portrait of a woman with a bonnet
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Janet Tower Storey (Aberdeen 1756-1835) Portrait of a woman with a cap Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 64 cm The present painting portrays an elderly woman wearing a white cap, which we can identify as the artist's great-aunt thanks to a cartouche on the back of the canvas specifying the subject ("great grand-aunt Storey"), the place where the painting was made ("Aberdeen", Scottish town) and the name of the English painter, "Janet Tower Storey" (1756-1835). The provenance and dating of the painting allow us to reconstruct the context in which our artist worked and the models she had available. In addition to the evident echo of the romantic painting of Th