Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/1743-1811)
Lot 139

JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/1743-1811)

Closed20 November 2013

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JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/1743-1811)
William Domville, in dark blue coat with gold buttons, white waistcoat pleated jabot and knotted cravat, short powdered hair
signed with initials and dated 'J S / 1807' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3¼ in. (84 mm.) high, gold frame, silver reverse engraved 'Wm Domville Esq. / Painted / by John Smart / November / 1807'

With A. Staal, Amsterdam, by 1929.
The Property of a Dutch Collector; Christie's, London, 21 February 1961, lot 84 (part lot, together with a miniature by John Smart of Maria 'Donville', signed and dated 1807; 360 gns. to Woollett).
With Captain Charles Woollett, London, by 1963 (with Woollett trade label on reverse).
Christie's, London, 15 June 1982, lot 93.
Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1992, lot 165.

Specialist note

The sitter, traditionally identified as William Domville, is most likely Sir William Domville, 2nd Bt. (b. 1774), son of Sir William Domville, 1st Bt. (1742-1833). In 1807, he married Maria, daughter of Isaac Solly, Esq., with whom he had seven children. This portrait dates from the same year as his marriage, as does that of his wife, and may therefore have been painted as a wedding portrait.