GUGLIELMO FAIJA (ITALIAN, 1803-1873)

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GUGLIELMO FAIJA (ITALIAN, 1803-1873)
Miss Faija, the artist's sister, in lace-bordered décolleté white dress trimmed with blue ribbon, blue sash tied around waist, seated in a red upholstered chair and holding a bouquet of flowers, blue curtain and sky background
signed and dated 'Faija 1839' (lower right)
on card
oval, 5 in. (127 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with chiselled scalloped border

Provenance

Mrs Jane Purvis; Sotheby's, London, 22 April 1968, lot 63 (unframed). Christie's, London, 23 October 1989, lot 39.

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Lot Essay

When sold Sotheby's, London, 22 April 1968, the present miniature formed part of a group of portraits by Guglielmo Faija of members of the royal family and members of the artist's own family including his son Ferdinand (lot 66), his father Gaetano (lot 69), and a self-portrait (lot 64). For further information on Faija, see V. Remington, Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 2010, I, pp. 218-244.

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