Attributed to William Owen (1769-1825) British, Oil on Canvas "Portrait of a Lady". 19th-century portrait depicts a young woman with ringlet curls wearing a green dress beneath a red shawl, housed in an ornate gilded Rococo-style frame. Unsigned. Framed.

Overall Size: 30 1/2 x 26 in.
Sight Size: 23 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.

William Owen (1769–1825) was an English portrait painter born in Ludlow, Shropshire, who became one of the prominent British portraitists of the Regency era. He moved to London in 1786 and apprenticed to coach-painter Charles Catton before entering the Royal Academy Schools in 1791, encouraged by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Owen began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1792 and became an Associate in 1804 and a full Academician in 1806. He painted numerous distinguished sitters, including William Pitt the Younger, Lord Grenville, Sir John Soane, and other leading political, judicial, and aristocratic figures. In 1810 he was appointed portrait painter to the Prince of Wales and later became principal portrait painter to the Prince Regent, although the prince never actually sat for him; Owen declined the offer of a knighthood in 1813. His career was curtailed by declining health, and he died in London in 1825.

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