JAMES NIXON (BRITISH 1741-1812) Portrait miniature of a Lady, wearing white robes with a pale pink underdress, a pale blue veil draped from her powdered hair and through a pearl loop on her dress, her hair adorned with further pearls, wooded landscape background signed with initial, N, lower left watercolour on ivory gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal dark brown plaited hair oval, 83mm (3 1/4in) high PROVENANCE: Sale, Bonhams, London, 22 April 2004, The Albion Collection of Fine Portrait Miniatures, lot 113 EXHIBITED: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2000-2003 The present large scale portrait miniature bears a strong resemblance to the portrait of Mary Wordsworth, Lady Kent, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1777.