RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)
Lot 120 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 46,850

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RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)
Master Bunbury, hands on hips, in double-breasted light brown suit with frilled collar, fair hair; sky background
signed and dated on the reverse 'Rdus: Cosway. R. A Primarius · Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis Pinxit 1802'
on ivory
oval, 3¼ in. (83 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with glazed reverse
An inscribed paper label on the reverse has been identified as a Limner Antiques label.

A Lady; Sotheby's, London, 2 April 1962, lot 35 (285 gns to C. Woollett).
Captain Woollett and Mrs E. B. Woollett, by 1965.
Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1979, lot 178.

Specialist note

A portrait of Master Bunbury by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781, no. 147 and an enamel of the same sitter by William Grimaldi was exhibited in 1830, no. 460.