Auction Closed
December 5, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
RICHARD COSWAY, R.A.
Oakford, Devon 1742 - 1821 London
PORTRAIT OF MARGARET WALPOLE, NÉE CLIVE (1768-1814), CIRCA 1790
Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold fausse-montre frame, glazed hair reverse
66 by 56 mm.
Sale, London, Christie's, 16 November 1976, lot 85;
sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 12 November 1980, lot 134
The sitter was the daughter of Robert Clive, 1st Lord Clive (Clive of India). She married, in 1788, Lieutenant-Colonel Lambert Theodore Walpole (1757-1798).