Mary Byrne (1776 - 1846) Portrait In Miniature By James Boswell

Mary Byrne later Mrs. James Green (1776 - 1846)
Portrait of James Boswell
Miniature on ivory, with a wick of horses fixed behind 9 x 6.5 cm

Mary Byrne (1776 - 1846) made a miniaturist artist born in London. Daughter of London engraver Wiliam Byrne and pupil of Swiss painter LA Arlaud. She exhibited at ROyal Academy from 1795 to 1804, and also at the British Institution and the Water-Color Society. She married in 1805 the portrait painter James Green.

James Boswell (1740 - 1795) a Scottish writer and lawyer, born in Edinburgh in 1740 and died in Fitzrovia in London in 1795. Boswell is best known for his monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, considered one of the chiefs work of English literature of the eighteenth century, for his travel stories and his commitment to the Corsicans. In English culture, Boswell became a language term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) describing a faithful and observant companion who takes notes, drafts or records his observations.