English school; 18th century.

English school; XVIII century.
"Portrait of a gentleman".
Watercolor on paper.
It has frame of the twentieth century.
Measurements: 20 cm (diameter); 33 x 33 cm (frame).
Portrait of a gentleman that presents the bust of a young man wearing a wig. The man, as it is habitual in the portrait painting of the epoch, is inscribed on a neutral bottom of ocher tonality on which stands out the iridescent blue lead of the clothes and the snowy face with rosy cheeks of the protagonist. It is these touches of white that turn the face into the main focus of the piece's illumination. A resource through which the author enhances the corporeality of the figure, which is monumentalized with the darkness and the volume of the wig itself. The delicacy of the drawing, the composition and the style bring the work closer to the aesthetics of the English school.