Princess Amelia (1783-1810), in white dress with blue sash, her right arm raised to her neck and holding her pearl necklace, drop-pearl earring, her brown hair curled and upswept and coiled in a plait

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RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)
Princess Amelia (1783-1810), in white dress with blue sash, her right arm raised to her neck and holding her pearl necklace, drop-pearl earring, her brown hair curled and upswept and coiled in a plait
octagonal, 2 13/16 x 2 3/16 in. (71 x 55 mm.), gilt-metal frame with beaded border and surmounted by a coronet

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Lot Essay

Princess Amelia was the sixth daughter of King George III and his wife Queen Charlotte. She died unmarried in 1810. For an earlier miniature of Princess Amelia by Richard Cosway, R.A. also showing the sitter's hand, see R. Walker, The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, 1992, no. 187, illustrated p. 94.

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