EDUARDO MOIRA (PORTUGESE, 1817-1887)

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EDUARDO MOIRA (PORTUGESE, 1817-1887)
A large portrait miniature of a lady, probably a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, full-length in a landscape, in lilac silk dress embroidered with flowers, white lace-bordered underdress with lace sleeves set with lilac ribbons, lace shawl over her shoulders and tied at corsage, wearing a blue enamelled gold bracelet set with pearls, and two hair bracelets, blue sapphire, gold and pearl rings, gem-set earrings and lace cap, her right arm resting on a carved stone plinth draped with tasselled silk shawl, a Maltese Terrier looking up towards its owner, the landscape with deer, water and trees
on ivory
rectangular with arched top, 19¾ x 13 1/8 in. (500 x 334 mm.), gilt-wood frame

來源

Documents accompanying the present miniature indicate that the miniature belonged Miss Helen Fergusson (c. 1844-1938), daughter of Sir William Fergusson, 1st Bt. of Spittlehaugh.

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The present miniature was once cleaned and reframed by W. E. Drummond Young, Portrait Photographers located at 103 Princes Street, Edinburgh. A typed document on their headed paper refers to the portrait as 'Moira 1853', suggesting that the miniature may be dated, and possibly signed on the reverse. Another full-length miniature by Moira, signed on the reverse, depicting Lady Suffield, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, and her child with a park landscape was sold Christie's, London, 29 November 1977, lot 109. Similarities between the two portraits indicate that the present sitter may also have been a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria.