A portrait of a young girl attributed to Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun – £2300 at Tamlyns.
■ Born as Elisabeth-Louise Vigée in Paris, 1755. Her father Louis painted in pastels and taught her until his death in 1767.
■ As a woman, she could not take art classes, and after marrying an art dealer (Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun), she should also have been blocked from entering the Academie Royale. But the queen, Marie-Antoinette, intervened to admit her in 1783, becoming one of only four women members.