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A young lady, facing right in lilac dress with embroidered white lace underslip, her upswept flaxen hair dressed in curls and adorned with a sprig of corn flowers
Details
JOHN SMART (1742/43-1811)
A young lady, facing right in lilac dress with embroidered white lace underslip, her upswept flaxen hair dressed in curls and adorned with a sprig of corn flowers
signed and dated 'J. S. 1764' (lower right)
oval, 1 in. (32 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with plain reverse
A young lady, facing right in lilac dress with embroidered white lace underslip, her upswept flaxen hair dressed in curls and adorned with a sprig of corn flowers
signed and dated 'J. S. 1764' (lower right)
oval, 1 in. (32 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with plain reverse
Provenance
Hermann Emden, Hamburg; part IV, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 2-3 May 1911, lot 243.
Stuker, Bern, 21 May 1960, lot 1264.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Stuker, Bern, 21 May 1960, lot 1264.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
B. S. Long, British Miniaturists, London 1929 (reprint 1966), p. 408.