SIR GEORGE HAYTER (LONDON 1792-1871)
SIR GEORGE HAYTER (LONDON 1792-1871)
SIR GEORGE HAYTER (LONDON 1792-1871)
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SIR GEORGE HAYTER (LONDON 1792-1871)

Portrait of a Lady, in a velvet gown and blue embroidered shawl, a guitar at her feet, a view of the Bay of Naples from the strata di Posilippo, with Vesuvius erupting in a landscape in the background

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SIR GEORGE HAYTER (LONDON 1792-1871)
Portrait of a Lady, in a velvet gown and blue embroidered shawl, a guitar at her feet, a view of the Bay of Naples from the strata di Posilippo, with Vesuvius erupting in a landscape in the background
oil on canvas
94 ½ x 58 ¼ in. (240 x 148 cm.)
Provenance
William Matheus Sullivan (1885-1947), Ridgefield, CT, his deceased sale, [English Furniture and Decorations Collected by the Late William M. Sullivan, Removed from Dunrovin, Ridgefield, Conn.]; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1-3 March 1951, lot 469, as George Henry Harlow.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 April 1989, lot 127.
with Richard L. Feigen and Co., New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 May 2004, lot 283 ($108,000), where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

George Hayter likely began his artistic training with his father, Charles Hayter, who painted miniature portraits, authored manuals on art instruction, and served as Princess Charlotte's perspective and drawing tutor. George entered the Royal Academy schools in 1808 and by 1815 was appointed as Painter of Miniatures and Portraits by Princess Charlotte. He was encouraged by his patron and avid art collector, John Russel, 6th Duke of Bedford, to study in Italy. In 1816 he arrived and gained an honorary membership at the Accademia San Luca in Florence. He returned to England two years later, and worked primarily as a portrait and history painter. He returned to Italy in 1826, working in Florence until the scandal of the death of his mistress Louisa Cauty forced him to flee to Rome, where he continued painting portraits of English society members living abroad. It is possible this portrait was completed during Hayter's Italian sojourn before he returned to England in 1831. He would later be appointed as Principal Painter in Ordinary and knighted by the young Queen Victoria.

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