SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/56-1808)

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SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/56-1808)
Eleanor Countess of Lauderdale, née Todd (1762–1856), in white dress
Signed on the backing card 'Sam: Shelley / Henrietta Street / Cov.t / Garden'
On ivory
Oval, 64 mm. high, ormolu easel-stand frame with engraved monogram and coronet surmount

Provenance

Major R.M.O. de la Hey; Sotheby's, London, 4 November 1968, lot 265.
Paul Wansborough Esq; Christie's, London, 23 March 1982, lot 339.

Literature

D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, II, pl. 327, fig. 814.

Exhibited

Edinburgh, The Arts Council Gallery, British Portrait Miniatures, 1965, no. 270 (lent by Major R.M.O. de la Hey).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The sitter was only daughter of Anthony Todd, Secretary of the General Post Office. She married, in 1782, James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale with whom she had nine children. She was painted by Angelica Kauffmann circa 1780-81 (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, inv. no. 2001.88).

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