John James Masquerier, R.A. (1778-1855)

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John James Masquerier, R.A. (1778-1855)

The Fortune Teller: Anna, Marchionees of Donegall, as a Gypsy with her son George, later the 3rd Marquess of Donegall on her back, telling the fortune of her sister Miss May, standing in a white dress, in a landscape

in a painted oval

50½ x 59¼in. (128.2 x 150.5cm.)

In a panelled giltwood frame applied and carved with foliage C-scrolls and cabochon border, with shaped cresting, pierced and carved with bulrushes, shell-work and quivers, centered by a cartouche

出版

R.R.M. See, Masquerier and his Circle, 1922, pp.42, 191, illus. pl.III.

展覽

London, Royal Academy, 1800, no. 732 (as The Fortune Teller).

拍品專文

Anna, Marchioness of Donegall, was one of the daughters of Sir Edward May. She married George Augustus Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall in 1795 and died in 1849. Her son George Hamilton, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (1797-1883), was the father of the 8th Earl of Shaftesbury's wife.