Catherine Swabey, née Bird, in white dress with fichu, blue and green sash around her waist, black choker, white gauze cap tied at the front with a bow in her curling powdered hair

细节

GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750-1829)
Catherine Swabey, née Bird, in white dress with fichu, blue and green sash around her waist, black choker, white gauze cap tied at the front with a bow in her curling powdered hair
oval, 2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, engraved on the front 'Catherine Bird, born 1753. Married Maurice Swabey, 1783', the reverse with plaited hair and blue glass, within red leather travelling case

来源

By direct family descent of the sitter.

出版

G. Williamson H.L.D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 113 and 114.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Catherine Bird was the daughter of Robert Bird and Mary Merrtins. She married Maurice Swabey on 4 September 1783 in Barton on the Heath, Warwick and they had five children, one of whom served the British Army for 18 years and fought in the Battle of Copenhagen, in the Iberian Peninsula and at the Battle of Waterloo before emigrating to Prince Edward Island with his family.
Williamson and Engleheart (supra) record that Mrs Swaby (sic) sat for Engleheart in 1792 and 1794.