Lot Essay
This is the only miniature by this interesting artist hitherto recorded. The backing paper of the portrait is inscribed 'Henriette de Lilienstern née le 14 Septb. 1769.'
A young Singer called Henriette de Lilienstern, half-length, facing left in gold-bordered white satin dress, pink cloak with striped blue lining, wearing a pearl bracelet, a pearl-set blue bandeau knotted in her long blond hair, her right hand holding a sheet of music
Details
JAMES KELLAR (1750-1810)
A young Singer called Henriette de Lilienstern, half-length, facing left in gold-bordered white satin dress, pink cloak with striped blue lining, wearing a pearl bracelet, a pearl-set blue bandeau knotted in her long blond hair, her right hand holding a sheet of music
signed and dated lower right 'james Kellar pin. 1789 December 9. at Frankfurt'
oval, 5 1/8 in. (130 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with beaded border
A young Singer called Henriette de Lilienstern, half-length, facing left in gold-bordered white satin dress, pink cloak with striped blue lining, wearing a pearl bracelet, a pearl-set blue bandeau knotted in her long blond hair, her right hand holding a sheet of music
signed and dated lower right 'james Kellar pin. 1789 December 9. at Frankfurt'
oval, 5 1/8 in. (130 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with beaded border
Provenance
Hilde Frank Collection, Leipzig.
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 422, II, p. 984, illustrated III, pl. 319, no. 639.
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 255.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, no. 232.
Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, no. 232.