Live Auction 5436Kinross House, Scotland And Property Removed From The London Residence of Mrs. Winston Spencer Churchill
DIANA HILL NÉE DIETZ (BRITISH, C. 1765 - D. 1844)
Lot 60

DIANA HILL NÉE DIETZ (BRITISH, C. 1765 - D. 1844)

Closed30 March 2011

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GBP 6,500

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DIANA HILL NÉE DIETZ (BRITISH, C. 1765 - D. 1844)
Mrs Robert Graham, full-length in a landscape, leaning against a stone pillar, in brown riding habit, frilled white cravat, holding a cream hat with white plumes in her right hand
signed and dated 'Hill. 1788' (lower left)
on ivory
rectangular, 6½ x 4 in. (165 x 101 mm.), ormolu easel frame with rope-twist surround

Specialist note

Full-length miniatures by this artist are rare. A signed and dated oval example depicting Lady Macleod seated with a book in a landscape, painted in Calcutta in 1787 is in the Victoria and Albert Collection (see M. Archer, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825, London, 1979, p. 33, plate 315).