A GROUP OF FIVE GEORGE III EMBOSSED BIRD PICTURES

ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC SPACKMAN, CIRCA 1764-1771

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A GROUP OF FIVE GEORGE III EMBOSSED BIRD PICTURES
Attributed to Isaac Spackman, Circa 1764-1771
Each depicting various birds in landscapes, including a pair of large double bird compositions one with a macaw, the other with a peacock pheasant, and a group of three, one depcting an ouzel and bearing a paper label to reverse inscribed in 18th century hand, Rose coloured Ouzel, shot near horwood, the background later painted, all in ebonized and parcel-gilt frames
15½ x 18in. (39 x 46cm.) overall, the larger; 9 x 7½in. (23 x 19cm.) overall, the smaller (5)

Lot Essay

The three smaller pictures can be dated to 1764, when Spackman was working on his second set of smaller scale, largely single bird compositions. The ouzel is identified in Ada K. Longfield, "More About Samuel Dixon and His Imitators", Irish Georgian Society Bulletin, vol 23, Issues 1 & 2, p. 25, fig. 20. Two of the birds in the larger compositions, the macaw and the peacock pheasant, were also depicted individually in this 1764 set. It was sometime after this last set of small scale pictures was completed and Spackman's death in 1771 that he began producing larger double bird compositions.

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