Lot 17
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Philip Mercier (?1689-1760)
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Philip Mercier (?1689-1760)

Double portrait of a girl and a boy, he full-length, in a green suit and yellow waistcoat wearing a tricorn, holding a whip in his right hand, she full-length, seated on a rocking horse, in a yellow dress wearing a garland of flowers, holding a flag in her right hand

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Philip Mercier (?1689-1760)
Double portrait of a girl and a boy, he full-length, in a green suit and yellow waistcoat wearing a tricorn, holding a whip in his right hand, she full-length, seated on a rocking horse, in a yellow dress wearing a garland of flowers, holding a flag in her right hand
oil on canvas
24½ x 29 in. (62.3 x 73.6 cm.)
Literature
J. Ingamells & R. Raines, 'A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Philip Mercier', The Walpole Society, XLVI, 1978, p. 51, no. 217
Engraved
John Faber II, mezzotint, 1744 (Chaloner Smith 411a), in reverse.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Although included in Ingamells and Raines 1978 catalogue of the works of Mercier, at that time the present picture was only known from Faber's engraving of 1744. Its rediscovery is an attractive addition to Mercier's oeuvre.

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