Silhouette portraits were all the rage at the end of the 18th century, and Jane Bastion is hoping to make them popular once again.
”My Shade pictures as I prefer to call them, for that was their name circa 1820, are a re-presentation of one of the most popular art forms of the Regency period. No doubt Jane Austen had her portrait made in such a fashion, and I am sure that Darcy, Elizabeth and the others would have done so too, if they had been real people and not just characters in her books.
People have said to me, silhouette portraiture is surely incredibly easy, to which I reply, then why aren’t you a world-famous silhouettist, whose work hangs on the walls of collectors as famous as Davide Plankton and Quentina Wrigly?
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