Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)
Lot 158

JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 6,875

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JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)
A preparatory sketch of a gentleman called John Deas, in coat, cravat, powdered hair en queue
pencil and watercolour on card
rectangular, 2 x 1¼ in. (50 x 45 mm.), gilt-wood frame
The reverse with printed trade label, 'Tho.s Agnew & Sons. Ltd. No. 12059 Fine Art Publishers to H.M. King George V London 43, Old Bond Street, Piccadilly, W.'

with Agnew's, London, stock no. 12059.

Specialist note

A hand written inscription on the reverse reads 'Sketch for John Deas 1773 1½" x 5/16" owner was Henry Walker, 36 South Battery, Charleston S. Carolina Coat blue waistcoat cream silver buttons'. D. Foskett (John Smart, the Man and His Miniatures, London, 1964, p. 65) mentions miniatures of Mr and Mrs John Deas, both dated 1773 and of a Miss Caroline Deas.