JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/1743-1811)
JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/1743-1811)

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JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/1743-1811)
A preparatory sketch of Mrs Armitstead (1750-1842), in white dress with floral red print, upswept hair
pencil and watercolour on card
rectangular, 1.7/8 in. x 2.1/8 in. (47 mm. x 54 mm.) gilt-wood frame, the reverse with Agnew's trade label 'THOs<\sup>. AGNEW & SONS. LT<\sup>D<\sup> / No. 929 / FINE ART PUBLISHERS TO HIS MAJESTY / LONDON / 43, OLD BOND STREET, / PICCADILLY. W.'
来源
With Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, no. 929.
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 1988.
出版
D. Foskett, John Smart, The Man and his Miniatures, London, 1964, p. 61.

拍品专文

Elizabeth Bridget Armitstead née Cane (1750-1842) was an actress and courtesan, famously becoming the mistress of George, Prince of Wales in 1781. In 1795, she secretly married Charles James Fox (1749-1806), see lot 161, but the marriage was not made public until 1802, when she was received as Fox's wife by Napoleon and Josephine Bonaparte, in Paris. She and Fox lived together at St Anne's Hill, near Chertsey, Surrey. She outlived her husband by thirty-six years.
A preparatory sketch of 'Mrs Armstead, in flowered muslin dress' from the collection of W. H. Bose, Esq, great-grandson of the artist, was sold Christie's, London, 15 February 1937, lot 27 (part lot, 20 gns. to Spink).

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