A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.

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<p>Episode in Samel Foote's play 'Taste', 1752. The play is an amusing satire on the art market. In this episode, the vain and ugly Lady Pentweazle sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine), while her black slave holds her lapdog. Lady Pentweazle is saying,"All my family, by the mother's side, are famous for their eyes. I have a great aunt amongst the beauties at Windsor; she has a sister at Hampton Court, a perdegeous fine woman! she had but one eye, but that was a piercer: that one eye got her three husbands."</p>

A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.

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