Details
Richard Cosway, R.A. (British, 1742-1821)
Mary Amelia ‘Emily Mary’, 1st Marchioness of Salisbury, née Cecil (1750-1835) in white dress, wearing a blue ribbon around her neck, possibly a house order, suspended with a locket
Signed and dated on the backing card ‘Rdus : Cosway / Primarius Pictor / Serenissimi Walliae / Principis / Pinxit / 1788’
On ivory
Oval, 63 mm. high, gold frame, the reverse set with gold monogram ‘MAC’ on a plaited hair ground
Provenance
C. B. Carruthers Esq., London.
Edward Joseph Collection, London, inv. no. 24; Christie’s, London, 13 June 1890, lot 1460 (as part of a group of seventy-seven described as ‘The unrivalled collection of miniatures by Richard Cosway, R.A. and contemporary miniaturists, which has been exhibited by Mr Edward Joseph at Windsor Castle by request of H.M. the Queen, also to T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House’), 9,300 gns to Woodrooffe [sic].
Frank Woodroffe Collection.
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1904) Collection, New York; Christie’s, London, 25 June 1935, lot 280 (165 gns to Floersheim).
Miss Ethel Floersheim; Christie’s, London, 26 June 1950, lot 91 (£147 to Backer).
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 8 September 1950 (inv. nos. MD/0502 and 145).
Literature
Williamson 1897, p. 124.
Williamson 1905, p. 110.
Williamson 1906, II, pp. 56-57, no. 273, the reverse illustrated pl. CXI.
Williamson 1907, p. 124.
Exhibited
Windsor Castle and Marlborough House, London, whilst in the collection of Edward Joseph.
London 1879, no. unknown.
Ryde, Isle of Wight, 1881.
Lewes, Sussex, 1882.
Brussels, 1888.
London 1889, Cabinet XL (lent by E. Joseph).
Possibly Brussels 1912, no. 84 (as the Countess of Salisbury).
Geneva 1956, no. 100.
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