Portrait of Julia Emily Gordon, full-length, wearing an African fez, in a garden

Details

David Wilkie, R.A. (1785-1841)
Portrait of Julia Emily Gordon, full-length, wearing an African fez, in a garden
with inscription 'Purchased at the Sale/of/Sir David Wilkies/Pictures and Sketches/April 30/1842' and with a further inscription 'Given to JEG-/by her Mother' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and brown ink, blue chalk and watercolour, heightened with white
8¾ x 6½ in. (22.2 x 16.5 cm.)

Provenance

Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (+); Christie's, London, 30 April 1842, lot 228 (3 gns to Sir Willoughby Gordon).

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Lot Essay

The present watercolour is a drawing of Miss Julia Emily Gordon, daughter of Sir Willoughby Gordon. The drawing was executed at Niton on the Isle of Wight in September 1833, while Wilkie was staying with Sir Willoughby Gordon.

Two other drawings by Wilkie of the sitter are in the Tate Gallery, London, having been bequeathed by Lady Gordon, one of which was included in the Wilkie Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1998, no. 74. In all three versions the sitter is depicted wearing the same African Fez.

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