拍品 70
70
WILLIAM GRIMALDI (BRITISH, 1751-1830)
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WILLIAM GRIMALDI (BRITISH, 1751-1830)

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WILLIAM GRIMALDI (BRITISH, 1751-1830)
A young lady, wearing a lace-trimmed blue dress, ermine mantle, pearl jewellery and portrait miniature depicting a man in a red coat suspended from her breast, with upswept hair adorned with strands of pearls and a yellow and white bandeau and feathers; arcade background
signed and dated on the backing card 'Painted / in / the Year / 1773 / W: Grimaldi'
on ivory
oval, 1.5/8 in. (42 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
來源
Robert Bayne-Powell (1910-1994) Collection, Kent; (+) Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1994, lot 45.
注意事項
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拍品專文

The present miniature is an early work by William Grimaldi, painted when the artist was only 22 years old.
There is a reference to a 'Portrait of a Lady, Three quarters face looking to her right. Size 1.75 x 1.5 inches, oval', painted in 1773, in A. B. Grimaldi, A Catalogue of the Works of William Grimaldi, 1873, p. 13, no. 7, which may refer to the present lot.

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