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Lady Hildyard, née Dering, facing left in gold-bordered blue dress, pearl necklace, her curled fair hair upswept
Details
JOHN SMART (1742/43-1811)
Lady Hildyard, née Dering, facing left in gold-bordered blue dress, pearl necklace, her curled fair hair upswept
signed with initials 'JS' (lower right)
oval, 15/16 in. (23 mm.) high, set in the bezel of a gold ring
Lady Hildyard, née Dering, facing left in gold-bordered blue dress, pearl necklace, her curled fair hair upswept
signed with initials 'JS' (lower right)
oval, 15/16 in. (23 mm.) high, set in the bezel of a gold ring
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1953, lot 65 (sitter unidentified).
Greta S. Heckett, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, PA.; (+) part III, Sotheby's, 5 October 1977, lot 371.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 March 1993, lot 46 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-188).
Greta S. Heckett, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, PA.; (+) part III, Sotheby's, 5 October 1977, lot 371.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 March 1993, lot 46 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-188).
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures from the Heckett Collection, 1954, no. 45 (sitter unidentified).
Special notice
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