A CROWN DERBY RECTANGULAR LARGE PLAQUE CIRCA 1880-85

by G. Landgraf, signed Landgraf Derby, finely painted with a Tudor-style mother and her child picking flowers beside a castle wall, with a modern frame, crowned interlaced D's mark printed in red. 2 pieces.

The Sydney Duckitt Collection, sold, Phillips, London, April 7, 1993, lot 157

G. Landgraf was known as a figure painter, active at Derby from 1880-85, following a period of employment at Brown-Westhead, Moore.  John Twitchett and Betty Bailey reproduce an 1878 letter from Landgraf, Royal Crown Derby, p. 218, Appendix 4, which indicates that from 1873 to 1878 he had been also employed as a "first artist" at the Royal Manufactory in Berlin.