Genre painting with happy drinker was executed in the around 1800-1810 by Flemish-French Classicism  painter and miniaturist Pierre-Noël Violet (Flanders 1749–1819 London ), who spent the latter part of his life in London.

Born in Flanders, Violet was an artist in Lille, moving to Paris in 1782. He left Paris during the French Revolution, but not before etching portraits of some of the members of the National Assembly in 1789. In that or the following year he settled in London, and in 1790 he exhibited portraits and miniatures at the Royal Academy, including a portrait of Marie-Antoinette.
Violet from 1798 showed drawings of domestic and fancy subjects at the Royal Academy, every year from 1798 to 1819. His portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, 1790, and George, Prince of Wales, 1791, and other works, were engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. Other portraits engraved from Violet's miniatures are those Hester Piozzi by Mariano Bovi, and Gaetano Bartolozzi by Thomas Tomkins. A set of etchings of domestic subjects, worked over in stipple by Violet, was published by Moltens in 1810.

Source: Dictionary of National Biography, Vol.58, London; lexicons by Thieme/Becker; Bénézit; on-line Wikipedia.

inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on wood, antique original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 9 7/8" x h 13" (25 x 34 cm), framed 15 3/4" 19 1/4"(40 x 49 cm).

 Condition: perfect condition.