The Innkeeper's Handsom Daughter, Rosalba Zuanna Carriera
Description
This portrait is titled The Inn-Keepers Handsom Daughter, also known as Fair Maid of the Inn. The British Museum has a mezzotint of this image and says that an alternate name for the work is Sophia, Fermor Countess Granville.
Context
Rosalba Zuanna Carriera was a Venetian Rococco painter born in 1673. She began as a pattern maker for her mother's lace-making business. Carriera first made her name as a painter of miniature portraits but eventually developed an innovative pastel technique that made her a popular portraitist with court elites across 18th century Europe. She died in Venice in 1757.
- Research and text by Thomas Bachelder of the Malabar Farm Foundation
