Lot Essay
According to the inscription on the reverse, the Geneva 1956 and Vienna 1965 exhibition catalogue entries, the present miniature was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1787.
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SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/1756 - 1808)
A mother seated with her daughter: the lady in white dress with peach striped surcoat, white gauze scarf covering her curling powdered upswept hair, clutching a string of pearls in her right hand; the young daughter in white dress with a blue shawl around her shoulders; pillar and woodland background
signed, inscribed and dated on the backing card '1787/ Painted by / Sam: Shelley / Henrietta Street / Covent Garden / Exhibited at the / Royal Academy'
on ivory
oval, 3.7/8 in. (97 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
A mother seated with her daughter: the lady in white dress with peach striped surcoat, white gauze scarf covering her curling powdered upswept hair, clutching a string of pearls in her right hand; the young daughter in white dress with a blue shawl around her shoulders; pillar and woodland background
signed, inscribed and dated on the backing card '1787/ Painted by / Sam: Shelley / Henrietta Street / Covent Garden / Exhibited at the / Royal Academy'
on ivory
oval, 3.7/8 in. (97 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histore, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 399 (lent by a private collector).
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 333 ('as one of the best works of the artist', lent by a private collector).
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 333 ('as one of the best works of the artist', lent by a private collector).
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