OF GEORGE III STYLE, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A FRAMED PAINTED CANVAS PANEL
OF GEORGE III STYLE, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
In the Goût Etrusque, with central medallion of the Three Graces, surmounted by a flowering urn and on a tripod base, in a ribbon-tied laurel surround with spandrels painted with chimerae, in a fluted and pearled frame surmounted by a husk-swagged flaming urn, the reverse with fragmentary Redhill depository label inscribed '68'
49¾ x 45¾ in. (126.5 x 116.5 cm.)

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拍品專文

The laurel-wreathed medallion, displayed within a pearled tablet, evokes lyric poetry, and is conceived in the George III 'Etruscan' or 'Roman vase' columbarium fashion popularised by the Rome-trained architect Robert Adam (d. 1792) and The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1773-4. Its black-ground roundel of Venus's festive Graces, incorporated in a vase-capped tripod stand, corresponds to a 1770s watercolour by the Rome-trained artist Angelica Kauffman (W. W. Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, London, 1992, fig. 94). Similar roundels, incorporated in vase-capped tripod stands, feature in Adam's 1777 design for the 'Etruscan Dressing Room' at Osterley Park, Middlesex; while the dancing Graces featured in his design for the room's mirror executed two years previously (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, nos. J/2 and J/3).