Who is the sitter in this portrait? Pls help decipher handwriting on back

[artlover123]

Dear Friends,

I have a, I think regency period, portrait and the sitter (and artist) are unknown. There is, however, writing on the back in pencil denoting who the sitter for the portrait is. If you could please help me decipher the handwriting that would be much appreciated and help solve the mystery!

I love portraits and pick them up at auction sometimes. However, it is sadly often the case that the identity of the sitter is lost. There is such a thrill is helping re-establish these visual remnants of our history.

Please find some images below.

Best wishes,


Joshua

[sarah]

Hello and welcome Joshua 

I am sorry but it appear that you forgot to attach your image, please try again pressing the attach button when you reply.

Regards

Sarah

[artlover123]

My profuse apologies! Please find images in different lights attached to this reply (I struggled finding the attachment button initially).

Best,
Joshua

[artlover123]

2nd image, sorry they are so small, it appears the site won't take them larger. J

[Karen McDonald]

Hi Joshua,

The images are too small to read and when I try to enlarge them, they are simply to blurry to see properly.

The attachments are only about 6kb - I think you are allowed something like 500 here on RC, so maybe it's worth trying to scan the writing again.

Best regards,
Karen

[Gadget]

I've enlarged and adjusted the tone, etc. but can't really make anything out.  You really need to provide a large image.

[Ray T]

They look to be suffering from jpeg artifacts which suggests that they are over-compressed.

The lighting for the first image is fine. The size (in Kb) of the image will depend on the extent of the area you’re photographing, the resolution you’re photographing at and the degree of compression. So, limit the photograph to the immediate area around the writing, set the image resolution to no more than 300 DPI and adjust the level of compression to give you a file size of no more than 500 Kb.

If you are confused, don’t be afraid to come back and ask!

[Kiltaglassan]

The attachments are only about 6kb - I think you are allowed something like 500 here on RC, so maybe it's worth trying to scan the writing again.

Sarah (the administrator) has mentioned before that you are allowed to add images up to 900Kb.

[Gadget]

Sarah (the administrator) has mentioned before that you are allowed to add images up to 900Kb.

It's 500kb per image and up to 900kb for multiple images in one post.  That's why many of we restorers have to post variations of large restores in separate posts.

Gadget