# Likeness of a Girl [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AMERLING, Friedrich von]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 64 x 51 cm ## Commentary From the early 1830s to approximately 1850 Amerling was Vienna's most celebrated portraitist. A likeness, almost identical to this portrait and entitled Modest Susanna, was executed in 1837. The portrait represents an example of one of Amerling's favourite compositional schemata to position the bare-backed sitter, turned away from the beholder. Effective highlights lend a soft gleam to the young face and betray the influence of <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/l/lawrence/margaret.html'\)" HREF="/html/l/lawrence/margaret.html">Thomas Lawrence's art of portraiture.</A> ## Related artworks - [Countess Nákó]() - [Emperor Franz I of Austria in his Coronation Robes]() - [Girl in Yellow Hat]() - [Maiden with a Straw Hat]() - [Portrait of a Young Girl]() - [Portrait of Count István Széchenyi]() - [Portrait of Princess Marie Franziska von Liechtenstein Aged Two]() - [Rudolf von Arthaber with his Children]() - [Self-Portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()