JOHN SMART (1741-1811)

PROPERTY OF THE LATE ARTHUR JAFFE (1880-1954)

Details

JOHN SMART (1741-1811)
Mrs Chambers
Pencil on card, the reverse inscribed ‘Mrs Chambers / 1807’
107 mm. high, framed, the reverse inscribed by Arthur Jaffe with sitter's biography

Provenance

By descent from the artist;
Mrs Busteed, a great-granddaughter of the artist; Christie's, London, 17 December 1936, lot 42 (part lot).

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Lot Essay

A miniature by John Smart, signed and dated 1807, of Mrs Annie Chambers, daughter of Robert Chambers, Chief Justice of Bengal, was sold Duke’s, Dorchester, 12 June 2014, lot 251. The miniature is in the List of Known Sitters published by D. Foskett, John Smart. The Man and his Miniatures, London, 1964, p. 64.

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