JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1741-1811)

PROPERTY OF THE LATE ARTHUR JAFFE (1880-1954)

Details

JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1741-1811)
Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745-1790), brother of King George III
Pencil and watercolour on card
62 mm. high, ornate ormolu frame, the reverse inscribed by Arthur Jaffe with sitter's biography

Provenance

By descent from the artist;
W. H. Bose, a great-grandson of the artist; Christie’s, 15 February 1937, lot 15 as ‘Portrait of a gentleman’.

Literature

D. Foskett, John Smart. The Man and his Miniatures, London, 1964, illustrated pl. XV, no. 57.

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Lot Essay

Smart produced very few portraits of the British Royal Family. A drawing of George IV when Prince of Wales is in the British Royal Collection, inv, no. 420663 and the finished miniature is in the Louvre (see P. Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire, Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, p. 325, no. 602, illustrated and described as 'Portrait of a Gentleman'.

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