A Woman by a Window, probably Mercy Glazebook

British (English) School. Oil painting on panel, Possibly Mercy Glazebook, British (English) School, circa 1830-50. A half-length portrait of a lady, turned go the left, gazing at the spectator, with tightly curled hair with a centre parting, wearing a red dress, white bonnet and white kerchief, her left hand resting on a ledge in front, beside her to the left at the back is a flowering shrub in a pot, she stands in front of a window with a red pelmet and a red curtain pulled back to the right to reveal a garden with animals and a distant horizon with cloudy sky. The Glazebrook family owned Glazebrooks (now Monk's Hall) from 1769-1877. 33 years in the hands of John Glazebrook, and 48 years in those of his widow Mercy Glazebrook, and his son William Glazebrook. In fact they had lived in the house for some 30 years before actually acquiring it. The Glazebrooks were millers and John Glazebrook bought the mill which was up on the down above Rodmell, and it remained in the family for 128 years when it was sold by his son William Glazebrook in 1877. This painting among the contents of Monk's Hall was probably put up for auction in 1919 and was bought by Leonard Woolf. He described three of the painting but not this one, though clearly they are by the same naive artist. Leonard Woolf, 'An Autobiography Vol.2 1911-1969' , pp.193-196. Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex (Accredited Museum)