Mary Nelson Dudding, in printed red pelisse with leopard skin collar with drop-pearls at corners, white underdress, orange turban

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PETER EDWARD STROELY (GERMAN, 1768-1826)
Mary Nelson Dudding, in printed red pelisse with leopard skin collar with drop-pearls at corners, white underdress, orange turban
signed 'Stroehling' (lower left)
on ivory
oval, 2 15/16 in. (75 mm.) high, plain silver-gilt frame

Provenance

Christie's, London, 23 October 1989, lot 26.

Exhibited

London, South Kensington Museum (Victoria & Albert Museum), Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1865, no. 2535, lent by the sitter's son the Rev. Horatio Nelson Dudding.

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Lot Essay

Mary Dudding, née Nelson, and her husband resided at Great Limber, Lincolnshire. They had two sons, Horatio and Edward. Horatio (d. 1895) lent the miniatures depicting himself, his brother, mother and aunt to the Portrait Miniatures exhibition in 1865 (nos. 2535, 2536, 2538 and 2539). Whilst the miniature of the aunt seems to be untraced, those of the two young boys were sold Sotheby's, London, 19 December 1977, lots 15 and 16.

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