A SKETCH FOR A ROYAL PORTRAIT

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SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (1785-1841)
A SKETCH FOR A ROYAL PORTRAIT
Pencil, black chalk and watercolour, heightened with white, on grey paper
8 5/8 x 5¾ in. (21.9 x 14.6 cm.)

Provenance

With Colnaghi's, London.
Almost certainly one of the two pictures given on the occasion of the marriage of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon on 6 May 1960, by Sir Charles Wheeler, K.C.V.O., O.B.E., President, on behalf of The President and Members, The Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House. W.1.

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Lot Essay

The present sketch brings to mind Sir Anthony Van Dyke's 1633 portrait of Charles I with M. de St Antoine in the Royal Collection. However the present drawing depicts two women and a dog to the left of the figure on horseback instead of the standing figure of M. de St Antoine (see Van Dyke: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Yale, 2004, pp.462-4).

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