Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 248. RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. | SELF-PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1800.

Property from the collection of the late Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)

RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. | SELF-PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1800

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July 29, 02:25 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the collection of the late Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)

RICHARD COSWAY, R.A.

Oakford, Devon 1742 - 1821 London

SELF-PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1800


Pencil heightened with watercolour on laid paper, original mount;

inscribed in a later hand, verso: Cosway Drawn by himself

unframed: 231 by 141 mm


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Sale, London, Christie's, 19 March 1980, lot 31;

where acquired by Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)

This self-portrait is datable on stylistic grounds to circa 1800-8. It relates to two other portrait drawings by Cosway: a portrait of King George III and a portrait of his son, and Cosway’s great patron The Prince of Wales. Both of these works are held in private collections.1

 

This drawing formed part of the collection of Dr Pohl-Ströher. For more information on this collector please see lot 244.

 

We are grateful to Dr Stephen Lloyd for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.


1. S. Lloyd, Richard & Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion, London, 1995-6, p. 127, cat. nos. 157 & 158, not ill.