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George and Charlotte Loftus as children seated full-length on a grass bank; in blue trouser suit, white shirt with large ruffled collar and white sash, long curling fair hair, holding his sister's pale pink sash around her white dress, long fair hair; pillar and foliate background with sheep and a lake in the distance
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SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/56-1808)
George and Charlotte Loftus as children seated full-length on a grass bank; in blue trouser suit, white shirt with large ruffled collar and white sash, long curling fair hair, holding his sister's pale pink sash around her white dress, long fair hair; pillar and foliate background with sheep and a lake in the distance
signed and dated in full on the backing papper 'Painted by Sam: Shelley. No. 6 George Street. Hanover Square London painted May 1795'
rectangular, 3¼ x 5 7/8 in. (83 x 152 mm.) gilt-metal frame
George and Charlotte Loftus as children seated full-length on a grass bank; in blue trouser suit, white shirt with large ruffled collar and white sash, long curling fair hair, holding his sister's pale pink sash around her white dress, long fair hair; pillar and foliate background with sheep and a lake in the distance
signed and dated in full on the backing papper 'Painted by Sam: Shelley. N
rectangular, 3¼ x 5 7/8 in. (83 x 152 mm.) gilt-metal frame
Provenance
With Karin Henninger-Tavcar, Pforzheim (in 1996).
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