拍品 69
  • 69

JOHN SMART | Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Captain Spedway

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10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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描述

  • Smart
  • Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Captain Spedway
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame, with glazed hair reserve, in associated wood case;signed lower right: JS / 1790 / I
  • 57 by 44 mm.

來源

The Ashcroft Collection;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 May 1946, lot 63;
sale, London, Christie's, 8 December 1982, lot 229

展覽

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924-1939 (lent by Ashcroft)
London, 1934, no. 1069

出版

Long, 1926, p. 138, illust. p. 137, pl. XII;
Long, 1929, pp. 407 & 408;
Foster, 1930/1931, p. 69, no. II;
Foskett, 1964, pp. 19 & 74

拍品資料及來源

The name Spedway does not appear in the list of officers of the Indian army, casting doubt on the traditional identification of the sitter.