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GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:09 Page 1 GUY PEPPIATT FINE ART British Portraits on Paper 1750-1850 31st March to 29th April 2009 Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm Weekends and evenings by appointment Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd Riverwide House, 6 Mason’s Yard Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BU Tel: [+44] (20) 7930 3839 Mobile: [+44] (0) 7956 968284 Fax: [+44] (20) 7839 1504 [email protected] www.peppiattfineart.co.uk GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:09 Page 2 1 Paul Sandby, R.A. (1730-1809) Portrait of Miss Abbott and Miss Rosier Full-length standing, holding hands Watercolour over pencil, with cut corners 2 1 3 16.8 by 12.4cm., 6 /2 by 4 /4 in. George Romney (1734-1802) Study of a Gentleman Provenance: By descent from the artist to William Sandby; Pencil on laid paper 1 1 By descent to Hubert Peake, the great-grandson of the artist’s niece, 10.4 by 10.4cm., 4 /2 by 4 /2 in. Charlotte; With Thos. Agnew & Sons, London ; This is a quick sketch by Romney, presumably a preliminary idea for With Kennedy Galleries, New York a portrait PAGE 2 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:09 Page 3 3 Richard Cosway, R.A. (1740-1821) Henry the Shepherd Black and red chalk 22.7 by 13.2cm., 9 by 5 in. This was originally part of a pair of drawings by Cosway which were engraved and published as ‘Henry and Emma’ in 1785 (see Frederick B. Daniell, A catalogue raisonné of the engraved works of Richard Cosway, 1890, p.45, no.184). Daniell mentions that they were sometimes described as depicting the artist and his wife Maria and indeed Cosway did draw a number of self-portraits with his wife in the 1780s. Cosway was born near Tiverton in Devon, the son of a local schoolmaster and was sent to London to study drawing in 1754. He first exhibited publicly in 1760 and soon established himself as a fashionable portrait painter in miniatures, drawings and oils. We are grateful to Stephen Lloyd for his help in cataloguing this drawing Provenance: The Estate of Phyllis Butterfield, San Francisco Engraved: By John Raphael Smith, 1785 and again published by Ackermann, 1802 PAGE 3 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:09 Page 4 4 William Hamilton, R.A. (1751-1801) Portrait of a Lady Full-length in a wood, a gipsy encampment beyond Signed with initials lower right Watercolour on wove paper watermarked J WHATMAN, oval, incised for transfer 20.2 by 15cm., 8 by 6 in. As a young man, Hamilton was sent to Rome by his father, an assistant to Robert Adam, where he studied under Zucchi. He returned to London in 1769 and studied at the Royal Academy Schools, exhibiting there for the first time in 1774. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1789. Until that date he specialised in portraits and afterwards concentrated more on historical and poetical subjects Provenance: In Dr Selfe’s album; Purchased circa 1850 by J. Hunter and extracted from the album; Sidney H. Hunter, West Hampstead, 1909 PAGE 4 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:10 Page 5 5 Elias Martin, A.R.A. (1739-1818) Portrait of Roxelana Half-length, wearing an elaborate head-dress Inscribed on old backboard: Roxelana/Wife of Solymon/“The Magnificent”/1528-1566/She was of Russian/origin Watercolour over pencil on laid paper watermarked with Britannia, oval 3 13.2 by 9.9cm., 5 by 3 /4 in. Roxelana or Hürrem as she is known in Turkish, was born in Poland and captured as a slave by Crimean Tatars. She was taken to Istanbul where she was selected for the harem of Sultan Süleyman (1494-1566). She soon became a favorite of the Sultan and bore him five children. Her influence over him soon became legendary and in a break from tradition, she was freed from slavehood and became his legal wife. Her son Selim inherited the Sultan’s empire. She died in 1558, eight years before her husband. Elias Martin was born in Stockholm and came to England in 1768 where he was one of the first students at the Royal Academy Schools, exhibiting at the R.A. from 1769. He returned to Sweden in 1780 and became Court Painter to the King before living in England again from 1788 to 1791. He produced landscape and figure drawings as well as portraits PAGE 5 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:10 Page 6 6 John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824) Portrait of Miss Mills Three-quarter length, seated, a landscape beyond Watercolour and coloured chalks heightened with touches of bodycolour, oval 1 34.7 by 25.5cm., 13 /2 by 10 in. Iolo Williams describes Downman as ‘the most notable portraitist of the late eighteenth century’ (Iolo Williams, Early English Watercolours, 1952, p.207). He was born in Wales, the son of an attorney and came to London to study under Benjamin West and at the Royal Academy. From 1771 to 1775, he was in Italy with Joseph Wright of Derby. On his return, he specialised in portrait drawings executed in watercolour combined with black chalk and stump to create a soft velvety effect. He exhibited 333 pictures at the Royal Academy from 1769 until 1819. Another version of this portrait without the landscape is recorded in the Hodgkins collection (see G.C. Williamson, John Downman – His Life and Works, 1907, opposite p. xvi, ill.) Provenance: Private Collection, Belgium PAGE 6 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:10 Page 7 7 John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824) Portrait of Emily Adolphus aged eleven Head and shoulders Watercolour and coloured chalks heightened with white, circular 22.8cm., 9 in. diameter Emily Adolphus was the daughter of John Adolphus (1768-1845), the barrister and writer. Her book `Recollections of the Public Career and Private Life of the late John Adolphus, the eminent Barrister and Historian, with extracts from his diaries, by his daughter, Emily Henderson’ was published in 1871 Provenance: With Morton Morris and Co., London; The Estate of Mrs T. Conway PAGE 7 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:10 Page 8 9 Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (1769-1821) Portrait of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Chichester 8 Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (1769-1821) Three-quarter length in uniform, in a military encampment Portrait of Lady Amelia Pelham Signed lower right: Edridge 179. Grey wash and pencil 1 1 Three-quarter length seated, by a river 16.7 by 11.8cm., 6 /2 by 4 /2 in. Signed lower left: HE 1795 Grey wash and pencil Thomas Pelham (1756-1826) was educated at Westminster and 1 3 16.6 by 11.9cm., 6 /2 by 4 /4 in. Clare Hall, Cambridge and quickly developed a strong interest in politics. In 1780, he was elected MP for Sussex and was surveyor- Lady Amelia Pelham was one of the seven children of Thomas general of ordnance in Lord Rockingham’s 2nd Ministry of 1782. In Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester (1728-1805). On the death of her 1783 he was Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition mother, Anne, in 1813, She left the family house at Stanmer, Sussex government and he was Irish Chief Secretary in Pitt’s government and moved to 43 Upper Brook St., Mayfair, London where she from 1795 until 1798. He was Home Secretary under Addington lived, unmarried, until her death in 1847. Her brother was from July 1801 to August 1803 and joint-Postmaster General from Thomas, 2nd Earl of Chichester 1807 until 1823 Provenance: Provenance: By descent from the sitter to Henry North, 3rd Earl of Sheffield (d.1909), By descent from the sitter to Henry North, 3rd Earl of Sheffield (d.1909), Sheffield Park, Sussex; Sheffield Park, Sussex; By descent until removed from The Dower House, Clinton Lodge, By descent until removed from The Dower House, Clinton Lodge, Fletching, Sussex and sold at Sotheby’s, 22nd February, 1928, lot 9; Fletching, Sussex and sold at Sotheby’s, 22nd February, 1928, lot 9; With Pawsey & Payne, London With Pawsey & Payne, London PAGE 8 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:10 Page 9 10 Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (1769-1821) Portrait of a Gentleman Three-quarter length seated, reading a newspaper Signed lower left: Edridge 1796 Grey wash and pencil on original washline mount 17.8 by 12.7cm., 7 by 5in. Edridge was born in Paddington, London, and studied at the Royal Academy where he began to exhibit portrait miniatures from 1786 (he exhibited 260 pictures there during his lifetime). He achieved considerable success as a portraitist in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – his portraits, like the present drawing, are executed in pencil with subtle tints of colour. The careful stippling on the face betray his background as a miniaturist PAGE 9 GP_Spring Cat 18/3/09 14:10 Page 10 11 Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808) Portrait of Miss Charlotte Musgrave Head and shoulders, Signed lower right: Hamilton/delin.t 1772 Pastel over pencil on laid paper, oval 1 23 by 19 cm., 9 by 7 /2 in. Charlotte Musgrave (1751-1818) was the daughter of Sir Philip Musgrave, 6th Bt., and his wife Jane Turton. She married the Reverend Charles Mordaunt, Rector of Massingham, the son of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Bt., in 1774. She was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1774-75 (see David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds – A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, 2000, no.1290, p.342). Hugh Douglas Hamilton was born in Dublin and studied at the Royal Dublin Society from 1750 until 1756 until moving to London and finding success as a portrait painter in pastel and oil.