CIRCA 1810, IN THE MANNER OF HENRY HOLLAND

These elegant chairs reflect the designs of Royal architect/designer Henry Holland and the furniture supplied under his direction to Samuel Whitbread II for Southill Park, Bedfordshire beginning in 1796. Notable is the set of four chairs of a similar profile (F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985, p. 44). English cabinet-makers whose names appear most frequently in conjunction with Holland include Morel, Marsh, Lichfield and Tatham (F. J. B. Watson, Southill: A Regency House, 1951, p. 23). An unprovenanced but virtually identical chair, with the London dealer Temple Williams, is also illustrated in Collard, p. 45.