femme-de-lettres:Large (Wikimedia)Margaret Sarah Carpenter painted this portrait, possibly of her da
femme-de-lettres:Large (Wikimedia)Margaret Sarah Carpenter painted this portrait, possibly of her daughter Henrietta, in 1839.She was, at the time, a successful portraitist, whose work had been exhibited at the Royal Academy for more than two decades. In this painting, she puts her subject in an Orientalist impression of ambiguously Middle Eastern clothes. Such garb was briefly fashionable in portraiture of the eighteenth century as a representation of the wealth such access to foreign goods and travel implied, but by the nineteenth was more the domain of genre scenes (depictions of everyday life). -- source link