Hannah Snell The Female Soldier 18th.Century English School Red Chalk Drawing. Pre Raphaelite Portrait of a scowling cat

Portrait of a scowling cat

Portrait of a young blue eyed blonde girl with a white ribbon in her hair

Exhibiting publicly with the Birmingham Society of Artists from 1827 onwards

eventually settling in London

Hannah Snell The Female Soldier 18th.Century English School Red Chalk Drawing. Pre Raphaelite Portrait of a scowling catEnglish School 18th. Century Red Chalk Drawing. Traditionally held to be a Portrait of Hannah Snell "The Female Soldier". 12 by 17 cms sheet. 19. 2 by 24 cms Overall in 18th. Century ebonised fruitwood frame. Provenance: Sir Robert Robinson (1886 1975) of Gt Missenden Bucks. 1947 Nobel Prizewinner. Hannah Snell (1723 1792) in pursuit of her errant husband, donned Male attire and served more than two years in a regiment of Marines under the alias of