Lot 91
  • 91

JOSEPH SAUNDERS | Portrait of Catherine Helm, circa 1785

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Saunders
  • Portrait of Catherine Helm, circa 1785
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal frame;signed centre left: IS.;inscribed on backing paper verso: Joseph Saun... / Great Maddox / Hanover Sqre [sic] 
  • 71 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Leo R. Schidlof (d. 1966), London, by 1956;
by family descent;
with Gertrud Rudigier, Munich;
Felicitas Keil;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1993, lot 269

Exhibited

Geneva, 1956, no. 393;
Vienna, 1965, no. 326

Literature

Schidlof, 1964, vol. II, p. 735, p. 1059, vol. III, p. 1048, pl. 512;
Foskett, 1972, vol. I, p. 493;
Foskett, 1987, p. 638

Condition

In good condition.
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