A pug

Details

Jane Shurlock, née Russell after John Russell, R.A. (Guildford 1745-1806 Hull)
A pug
with indistinct inscription 'The favourite/Russells"pug" after/J. Russell R.A./by Jane Mrs. M. (?) Shurlock (from ...(?) Russell)/for C. Shurlock.' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pastel on buff paper laid on linen
8 x 7½ in. (20.3 x 19 cm.)

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Sale room notice

We would like to thank Neil Jeffares, author of Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 (London, 2006) for attributing the present lot to Mrs. Jane Faden Shurlock, ne Russell, (the artist's granddaughter), wife of Mainwaring Shurlock, of Chertsey. Mainwaring Shurlock was at one time the owner of the portrait mentioned in the catalogue entry of Jane de Courcy from which this image was copied.

PROVENANCE:
By descent in the family; Bukowski's Auction House, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-17 February, 2009, where purchased by the present owner as John Russell.

The estimate to remain at £600-1,000.

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Lot Essay

The inscription on the back board of this picture suggests it was executed by Mrs. Jane Shurlock. This is likely to be John Russell's daughter, Henrietta Ann Jane Russell, (1781-1857) who married Mr. Robert Shurlock (1779-1847). Russell taught his daughter the art of pastel drawing and she became a talented artist in her own right. The present lot seems to be a copy of the Russell's pug depicted in a portrait of Jane De Courcy, 1802, by John Russell. The De Courcy portrait remained in the possession of the Shurlock-Mainwaring family, see G.C. Williamson, John Russell, R.A., London, 1892, p. 165.
The inscription on the reverse of the pastel refers to a Mrs. "M" Shurlock; Mr. Shurlock's first name was 'Robert' so it has been suggested that the inital has been misremembered.

We are grateful to Christian Dettlaff, Guildford House Gallery, for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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