Silhouette Portrait of an English Lady by Richard Ansdell Circa 1835 Believed to be Elizabeth Woodward

From the internet:
Richard Ansdell was born to Thomas Griffiths Ansdell, a ship’s pulley block maker at Liverpool docks and Anne (nee Jackson), a seamstress. His father died when he was young and he was educated at the Bluecoat School (for orphans). When he left school he trained as an apprentice silhouettist with W C Smith, profile and portrait painter of Chatham Street, Liverpool, Thereafter, he went to Holland painting signs for a circus. In 1836 he became a student at the Liverpool Academy where he eventually became President in 1845. Prior to this he had married Maria Romer (a Liverpool girl) and they went on to have eleven children.

In 1847 he left his native Liverpool and moved to Kensington, where he built a large house which he named 'Lytham House' after his beloved Lytham in Lancashire where he had built a sizeable residence called 'Starr Hills' in 1861. Nowadays the area of the town around Starr Hills is called ‘Ansdell’ after him – as is a street in Kensington. Ansdell also built a home, Moy Lodge, on the banks of Loch Laggan in Scotland, where he painted many Scottish subjects.

Between 1840 and 1885 Ansdell exhibited paintings annually at the Royal Academy (149 in all) and also exhibited some 30 canvases at the British Institution. He was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1861 and Royal Academician in 1870. He became one of the most successful Victorian sporting artists, collaborating on huge canvases with artists such as Thomas Creswick (1811–1869) and William Powell Frith (1819–1909), placing his animals into their landscapes. fine

(Thanks to information from Sara Ansdell Dean, his great-great granddaughter).
This silhouette believed to be of Elizabeth Woodward, mentioned on reverse (As Ellen Woodward).