Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)
Lot 156

JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)

Closed10 June 2010

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JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)
A preparatory sketch of a young lady, in dress with lace collar, upswept curling hair
pencil and watercolour on card
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high, rectangular gilt-wood frame

Possibly Mabel Annie Busteed, née Bose (b. 1878), a granddaughter of the artist; possibly Christie's, London, 17 December 1936.
Fischer Galleries, Lucerne, 21 June 1955, lot 727.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen, inv. no. 550, M/D 0641.