Details
Walter Stephens Lethbridge (1771/72-1831)
A Self-Portrait of the Artist and his Wife; he, full face in blue coat with gold buttons, cream waistcaot and frilled cravat, cream trousers, his left hand resting on an open book on a covered table, ink pot and quills, standing beside his wife, in pale blue silk dress with fichu, pendant brooch at corsage and in her twisted turban headgear, multi-coloured bordered white cashmere shawl around her shoulders, seated on a leather covered sofa; pillar and draped red curtain and foliate background (cracked)
rectangular, 8 1/16in. (206mm.) high
See Plate 1
A Self-Portrait of the Artist and his Wife; he, full face in blue coat with gold buttons, cream waistcaot and frilled cravat, cream trousers, his left hand resting on an open book on a covered table, ink pot and quills, standing beside his wife, in pale blue silk dress with fichu, pendant brooch at corsage and in her twisted turban headgear, multi-coloured bordered white cashmere shawl around her shoulders, seated on a leather covered sofa; pillar and draped red curtain and foliate background (cracked)
rectangular, 8 1/16in. (206mm.) high
See Plate 1
Literature
B. Long, British Miniaturists 1520-1860, London, 1929, p. 271.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1817, no. 691.