Live Auction 5436Kinross House, Scotland And Property Removed From The London Residence of Mrs. Winston Spencer Churchill
ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Lot 58

ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY

Closed30 March 2011

Price Realised

GBP 750

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ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Mrs John Graham, in décolleté blue dress with white lace underdress, pinned at shoulder with a pearl-set clasp, her upswept hair dressed with strands of pearls
on ivory
oval, 2 1/16 in. (53 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the glazed reverse with grey silk panel

Specialist note

The present sitter was the wife of John Graham (see lot 56). Like her husband, she was painted by Tilly Kettle (1734 - c.1786) in Calcutta, circa 1774-1776 (see M. Archer, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825, London, 1979, p. 88, plate 43).