Lot Essay
The sitter is possibly Elizabeth (1791-1843), eldest daughter of Samuel Whitbread of Cardington, Beds. (1758-1815) who married William, 8th Earl Waldegrave on 10 August 1812 and had issue.
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A lady called Lady Whitbread, facing left in buff-coloured dress with white underslip, pearl armlet, holding a garland of leaves flowing from her dark curling hair in her right hand
Details
ANDREW PLIMER (1763-1837)
A lady called Lady Whitbread, facing left in buff-coloured dress with white underslip, pearl armlet, holding a garland of leaves flowing from her dark curling hair in her right hand
oval, 31/8 in. (78 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with glazed reverse
A lady called Lady Whitbread, facing left in buff-coloured dress with white underslip, pearl armlet, holding a garland of leaves flowing from her dark curling hair in her right hand
oval, 31/8 in. (78 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with glazed reverse
Provenance
Jeffery Whitehead, London (in 1889).
Literature
J. J. Foster, Miniature Painters British and Foreign, London/New York, 1903, I, p. 136.
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, case XVII, catalogue p. 51, no. 12, illustrated pl. XIX (lent by Jeffery Whitehead, London).