A Lady, facing right in lace-bordered turquoise coloured dress, orange and white striped gauze scarf falling over her left shoulder from her brown upswept hair
Details
JOHN BOGLE (1746-1803)
A Lady, facing right in lace-bordered turquoise coloured dress, orange and white striped gauze scarf falling over her left shoulder from her brown upswept hair
signed with initials and dated 'IB 1778/9' (mid-right)
oval, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with split-pearl border, the reverse with a miniature of a sheperdess in a landscape
A Lady, facing right in lace-bordered turquoise coloured dress, orange and white striped gauze scarf falling over her left shoulder from her brown upswept hair
signed with initials and dated 'IB 1778/9' (mid-right)
oval, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with split-pearl border, the reverse with a miniature of a sheperdess in a landscape
Provenance
de la Hey Collection (in 1929); Sotheby's, London, 4 November 1968, lot 230.
Mrs Jane Briggs, 1969.
Mrs Jane Briggs, 1969.
Literature
B. Long, British Miniaturists 1520-1860, London, 1929, p. 34.
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, I, p. 16, no. 55, illustrated II, pl. 17, no. 55.
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, I, p. 16, no. 55, illustrated II, pl. 17, no. 55.