Isn’t there something striking about the look the woman is giving in this portait?  This is the artist Anne Forbes as painted by David Allan.  Allan is often compared to Hogarth, and I was looking up paintings by him, but when I saw this one it made me look up Anne’s story and her paintings.  

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   This is the artist Anne Forbes as painted by David Allan.

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    quite a striking expression.

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    just astounding. Yeah,...at you, trying to capture

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