Lot 73
  • 73

JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. | Portrait of a lady, circa 1790

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a lady, circa 1790
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame, glazed hair reverse
  • 75 by 59 mm.

Provenance

Oscar Dusendschön, Chambésy, by 1956;
his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 21 November 1960, lot 4;
The De La Hey Collection, inv. no. 34, by 1965;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 27 May 1968, lot 137;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 February 1989, lot 351

Exhibited

Geneva, 1956, no. 128;
Vienna, 1965, no. 87;
Edinburgh, 1965, no. 273

Literature

L.R. Schidlof, 1964, II, p. 965, III, illust.;
Foskett, 1972, vol. I, p. 250;
Foskett, 1979, p. 298, no. 78A, illust.;
Foskett, 1987, p. 530, 298, no. 78A, illust.

Condition

In very good order and a fine example of the artist's work.
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