JOSEPH LEE (BRITISH, 1780-1859) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRITISH, 1769-1830)

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JOSEPH LEE (BRITISH, 1780-1859) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRITISH, 1769-1830)
King George IV (1762-1830), when Prince Regent, in fur-collared blue coat with frogging, black stock, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, seated on a red-upholstered chair; red curtain, pillar and sky background
signed 'J Lee' (lower right) and signed and inscribed on the counter-enamel 'His Majesty / George the 4th / Painted by Joseph Lee / ([...] Queen Charlotte [...] / from a Picture / by Sir Tho^{s<\sup> Lawrence / P.R.A. / New Road'

enamel on copper

rectangular, 3¾ x 3.1/8 in. (95 x 80 mm.), gilt-metal mount with spiral surmount}

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Lot Essay

This miniature is after the original full-size portrait of King George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., now in the Wallace Collection (inv. no. P559). It was thought by Lawrence to be his finest portrait of George IV. The King gave it to his mistress, Lady Conyngham.
A rectangular enamel of George IV by Joseph Lee after Sir Thomas Lawrence, signed in full on the reverse, was sold Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1974, lot 30.
For a biographical note on the sitter, see lot 160.

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