细节
ASCRIBED TO CHARLOTTE HADFIELD (BRITISH, FL. C. 1793)
A young lady, in white dress with blue sash, double strand pearl necklace, drop-pearl earring, white headscarf in her upswept curling powdered hair; sky background
inscribed on the backing card 'Charl<\sup> Hadfield / London / 1793'
on ivory
oval, 2.5/8 in. (72 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with enamel and pearl reverse with diamond-set initial 'K', in hinged fitted red leather case
来源
The Property of Mrs J. H. Barnes dec'd (sold by order of the Executors); (+) Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1974, lot 44 (as by Charlotte Hadfield, sister-in-law to Richard Cosway).
Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1979, lot 148 (as by Charlotte Hadfield).
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 1992 (as by Charlotte Hadfield).
出版
D. Foskett, Miniatures. Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 342, illustrated pl. 98A (as signed and dated on the reverse 'Charl<\sup> Hadfield / London July / 1793'. 'This is one of the few known examples of the artist's work and is painted in the manner of Cosway, her brother-in-law').
注意事项
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