FOUR VIENNA STYLE PORTRAIT PLATES

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE BEEHIVE MARKS TO ALL, ONE WITH IMPRESSED HR MONOGRAM FOR HUTSCHENREUTHER, THE OTHER THREE WITH GILT, PRINTED OR PAINTED DECORATOR'S MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED AND PAINTED NUMERALS, THREE SIGNED WAGNER, ONE E. VOTH

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FOUR VIENNA STYLE PORTRAIT PLATES
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE BEEHIVE MARKS TO ALL, ONE WITH IMPRESSED HR MONOGRAM FOR HUTSCHENREUTHER, THE OTHER THREE WITH GILT, PRINTED OR PAINTED DECORATOR'S MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED AND PAINTED NUMERALS, THREE SIGNED WAGNER, ONE E. VOTH
Each finely painted with a beauty, named on the reverse, including 'Printemps Cock', 'Tiken', 'Gainsborogh: Mrs. Sheridan' and 'Elegie', within a gilt beaded cavetto and border gilt in the Art Nouveau taste
10 in. (25.3 cm.) diameter, the largest (4)

Lot Essay

Thomas Gainsborough, English (1727-1788)

Lifelong friends, Gainsborough originally met Mrs. Sheridan (née Linley) while he studied music under the tutelage of her father, a concertmaster in Bath. Her husband, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was a liberal politician and the noted playwright of The Rivals and The School for Scandal.

Originally in the collection of Andrew W. Mellon, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1785-1787) is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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