297297. CLARA MARIA LEIGH POPE, gouache, sign.

Interiörmotiv med män vid schackparti, bildstorl 48 x 58. An interior with men playing chess. The artist was the favorite model of the English painter Francis Wheatley R A (1747-1801) whom she married in 1787. After his death she married famous Irish actor Alexander Pope (1763-1835), and as Mrs Pope she was known as a painter of flowers and portraits.