Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)
Lot 159

JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 18,125

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JOHN SMART (BRITISH, 1742/43-1811)
A preparatory sketch of Mrs Fitzhughes, in lace-bordered yellow silk dress with slashed sleeve, blue ribbon tied at corsage, upswept hair dressed with gauze
pencil and watercolour on card
feigned oval, 2 3/8 in. (61 mm.) high, modern rectangular gilt-metal mount with paper label inscribed 'Mrs. Fitzhughes'

Lilian Mary Dyer, née Bose (1876-1955), a great-granddaughter of the artist; Christie's, London, 26 November 1937, lot 28 (part lot, 16 gns. to Workman).
Peter Kaufmann Collection; Sotheby's, London, 13 October 1975, lot 85.
Bruton Knowles, Gloucestershire, 8 December 1994, lot 65.