A large miniature of Lady Suffield standing full length on a before a stone column holding a child in her arms; she, in white silk dress with lace collar and cuffs, her dark hair plaited and upswept, the young child holding the gold and ruby pendant suspended from a black ribbon around their mother's neck, in lace dress with blue and white tartan sash tied in a large bow, their right foot barefoot and white sock and black shoe on their left foot; plants in stone containers, foliage and landscape background

細節

EDWARD LOBO MOIRA (ANGLO-PORTUGUESE, b. 1817)
A large miniature of Lady Suffield standing full length on a before a stone column holding a child in her arms; she, in white silk dress with lace collar and cuffs, her dark hair plaited and upswept, the young child holding the gold and ruby pendant suspended from a black ribbon around their mother's neck, in lace dress with blue and white tartan sash tied in a large bow, their right foot barefoot and white sock and black shoe on their left foot; plants in stone containers, foliage and landscape background
purportedly signed and dated 'E. Moira' (top right) and '1857' (top left) and signed and dated in full on a label attached to the reverse of the frame 'the Right Hon. Lady Suffield and Child. E. Moira /Seymour Street Portman Sqr. 7th April 1857.
rectangular with shaped top, 18 x 13½ in. (450 x 335 mm.), gilt-wood mount with coronet within gilt-wood and plaster frame

來源

The Dowager Lady Hillingdon.
Christie's, London, 29 November 1977, lot 109.

展覽

London, Royal Academy, 1857, no. 805.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

Cecilia Annetta (d. 1911), youngest daughter of Henry Baring, and sister of 1st Baron Revelstoke, married Charles, 5th Baron Suffield (d. 1914) in 1854 and had issue. She was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra.
A miniature of Lord Suffield by Moira was also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, no. 723.