Old Master & British Drawings Sale

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Lot 252
  • 252

A Collection of Portraits

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A Collection of Portraits

  • including portraits of A Gentleman, Aged 45, in 1700; Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603); and two others  

     

  • One pen and black ink, heightened with brown wash; one watercolour over pencil, one watercolour over pencil, heightened with pen and brown ink; and one black and coloured chalk over pencil, two framed;
    variously signed and inscribed: one signed and inscribed in pen and black ink, lower centre: AE TATIS Luee. [sic] / XLV. / Den 14 December Ao 1700 / J. Faber fecit in London den 14 Decembr [sic] 1700, further later inscribed on the mount in pen and brown ink: The ABOVE BEAUTIFUL PEN DRAWING BY FABER WAS THE GIFT OF MY FRIEND / JOHN SHEEPSHANKS ESQUIRE, OF LONDON; one signed and inscribed in pen and brown ink, verso: H.R.H. Geo. Prince of Wales. / Modern Portraits No. 3 * / Robt. Laurie Delt.; and one inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower centre: Elisabela [sic] DG Angliae & Ch V Sichem fecit  

     

By or attributed to John Faber, the Elder (The Hague 1660-1721 Bristol); William Ward A.R.A. (London 1766-1826); George Morland (London 1762-1804); and others

Provenance

John Faber, The Elder John Sheepshanks (1787-1863) (L.2333);
with Christopher Powney, London, by 1970, by whom sold in 1970 to Walter Brandt;
George Morland Sale, London, Christie's, 23 March 1956, lot 69 (as John Raphael Smith), to Walter Brandt