RICHARD CROSSE | Self-portrait, circa 1775

With Jesse and Pat Lasky, London, by 1965;
sale, London, Christie's, 31 March 1981, lot 91

Vienna, 1965, no. 63

The work is in very good condition.
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A self-portrait by Crosse, showing the artist in half-length, is in the Victoria and Albert Musuem (P.147-1929). Another self-portrait, from the collection of a descendent of the artist, Lieutenant Colonel Reeder Crosse-Upcott, was exhibited: British Portrait Miniatures, Edinburgh, 1965, no. 199.