拍品 63
  • 63

RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. | A double portrait of Lady Anne Compton Cavendish (1787-1871) and her brother Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (1789-1873)

估價
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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描述

  • Cosway
  • A double portrait of Lady Anne Compton Cavendish (1787-1871) and her brother Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (1789-1873)
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame, glazed hair reverse;reputably signed and dated verso: 1792
  • 84 by 69 mm.

來源

John, 5th Earl Cawdor (1900-1970), by 1934,
by family descent;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 October 1981, lot 145

展覽

London, 1934, no. 1075

出版

Barnett, 1995, pl. V, no. m

Condition

Slightly faded and one unaccountable fine dark line (3mm) in sky near Lady Anne's cap.
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拍品資料及來源

The sitters are the children of Lord George Cavendish, created 1st Earl of Burlington in 1831 and his wife Lady Elizabeth Compton, daughter and heir of the 7th Earl of Northampton.

Lady Anne married Lord Charles Fitzroy, younger son of the 4th Duke of Grafton in 1825, while Lord Henry married firstly in 1811, Sarah Fawkener, secondly in 1819, Frances Susan Howard, Lampton, and thirdly in 1873 Susanna Byrlie.