BY ISAAC GOSSET, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE
BY ISAAC GOSSET, LATE 18TH CENTURY
In profile, in an oval turned wood later frame with Isaac Gosset attribution hand-written label on the reverse
The wax 3¼in. (8cm.)
Together with a cream wax portrait relief of George III on green glass ground and turned wood frame, wax 3 1/8in. (8cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

Issac Gosset (1713-1799) was the sixth son of Jean Gosset, a Huguenot from Normandy who had settled in Jersey. He trained in London as a frame-carver and wax-modeller with his uncle Matthew Gosset (1683-1744) of Poland Street, Soho. Gosset was one of the most established 18th century modellers in wax and exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1760 to 1778.

George III (1738-1820) was the first Hanoverian King to be born and raised in England. He married German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1744-1818) in 1761 and they had fifteen children. Plagued by bouts of porphyria, a hereditary illness, he withdrew from public life in 1811 when the Regency began.

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