18th Portrait Pastel On Parchment Gilt Frame Signed Jeremiah Meyer

Pastel on oval parchment depicting a veiled girl, 18th century, with original gilded wooden frame. On the back you can read the signature J.... Meyer. There are also some numbers but they do not appear to correspond to dates but rather to inventory numbers.
The pastel comes from the collection of an important Florentine family. Some traces of humidity at the bottom they caused ripples in the parchment.

Meyer was a portraitist of German origins who became a naturalized Englishman. A student in London of the German painter Christian Friedrich Zincke, he specialized in portraiture and miniature, portraying noblemen, ladies and children belonging to the English nobility. His female portraits were executed by him with soft, delicate and velvety tones. He mainly produced miniatures but larger-format pastels are also documented.


Measurements
parchment cm 40 x 32.5
frame cm 47 x 39