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SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/56-1808)
A family scene: the mother, Mrs H. Morton Dyer, in white dress and yellow shawl with her three young children and their great-grandmother, the Hon. Mrs Morton, seated on a red-upholstered sofa on a garden terrace, the father, H. Morton Dyer, seated on a chair behind and leaning on the back of the sofa, landscape background
signed 'SShelley. inv.t & pinx.t' (mid-right)
on ivory
rectangular, 5 5/16 x 7 in. (135 x 179 mm.), gilt-brass slip within ornate gilt-wood and gesso frame
A family scene: the mother, Mrs H. Morton Dyer, in white dress and yellow shawl with her three young children and their great-grandmother, the Hon. Mrs Morton, seated on a red-upholstered sofa on a garden terrace, the father, H. Morton Dyer, seated on a chair behind and leaning on the back of the sofa, landscape background
signed 'SShelley. inv.t & pinx.t' (mid-right)
on ivory
rectangular, 5 5/16 x 7 in. (135 x 179 mm.), gilt-brass slip within ornate gilt-wood and gesso frame
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1804, no. 695 (part): 'A family picture : the Honourable Mrs. Morton : her grandson, H. Morton Dyer, Esq. and lady : and her three great grand-children'.
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