Portrait of Emma Jane Hodges

1810

Emma Jane Hodges was devoted to her father, the painter Charles Howard Hodges, who gave her drawing lessons and painted this dreamy portrait of her. She is about twenty years old and dressed in a gown of the latest fashion, with a ruffled double collar and elbow-length gloves of chamois leather. Emma Jane bequeathed this portrait to the Rijksmuseum in her will, together with her father’s self-portrait.