Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)
Jeremiah Meyer, R.A.
Portrait of Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, née Spencer (1757-1806), circa 1780
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December 9, 05:27 PM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)
Jeremiah Meyer, R.A.
Tübingen 1735 - 1789 London
Portrait of Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, née Spencer (1757-1806), circa 1780
watercolour and bodycolour ivory, gilt-metal mount
9.8 by 8 cm., 4 by 3¼ in.
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 13 February 1978, lot 80;
With Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1979
With Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1979
R. Walker, The miniatues in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen: eighteenth and early ninteenth century, Cambridge 1992, p. 134
A slightly larger, unfinished, version of this portrait of the celebrated Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire is in the Royal Collection.1
1. Walker, op. cit., p. 134, no. 266