Lot Essay
Peat is known to have worked in London, Bath (1819-1822), Leamington (1828) and Bristol (1830-1831) but this Birmingham address is previously unrecorded.
A Mother and Child
Details
THOMAS PEAT (fl. 1791-1831)
A Mother and Child
signed 'Peat.' (lower right), the backing paper inscribed 'for sale Mother & Child an Enameled Picture Price 7.10.0 By Thos. Peat Burmingham [sic] No. 23 Lower Temple Street'
enamel on copper
oval, 4 3/8 in. (113 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular lacquered black wood frame
A Mother and Child
signed 'Peat.' (lower right), the backing paper inscribed 'for sale Mother & Child an Enameled Picture Price 7.10.0 By Thos. Peat Burmingham [sic] No. 23 Lower Temple Street'
enamel on copper
oval, 4 3/8 in. (113 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular lacquered black wood frame
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, pp. 1019-1020, illustrated IV, pl. 444, fig. 910.