Follower of Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) Portrait of Miss Mary Trelawney Wigan (b.1740), as a young girl, three-quarter length, in blue dress and red cloak, with flowers in her hair, and holding a posy of flowers Oil on canvas 118 x 92cm Provenance: From a Yorkshire country house. Mary Trelawney Wigan was the daughter of Dr John Wigan, physician, poet and author, and his wife Mary Wheeler, whom he married in 1738 in Spanish Town, Jamaica, having travelled there with his lifelong friend, Colonel Edward Trelawney, who became Governor of Jamaica. Sadly Dr Wigan died before his daughter's birth in 1740. Mary Wigan later married The Hon. Rose Herring May, of Mayfield, Kent, who was one of His Majesty's Counsels in Jamaica. Condition report: Oil on canvas which has been lined. The canvas tension is slack, there are small dents in the upper half of the canvas. The painting has suffered from loss and damage in the past, mainly in the background which is now largely overpainted. There are uneven, lumpy fills in the background. The sitter is in a better condition. The paint layer in the hair has a slightly raised network of age cracks which are cupped. There is retouching in the lower half of the face. There are scattered retouchings through the sitter's hands and dress. The retouchings are crudely executed in the background and slightly mismatched in the face. The gilding on the frame is worn with areas of loss.