Live Auction 7962Old Master & British Paintings
Angelica Kauffman, R.A. (Chur, Graubünden 1741-1807 Rome)
Lot 50

Angelica Kauffman, R.A. (Chur, Graubünden 1741-1807 Rome)

Portrait of lady, believed to be Elizabeth Muncaster, née Dale, three-quarter-length, in a dress with a pearl clasp and a yellow mantle, flowers in her hair, holding a laurel wreath, before a bust of the Apollo Belvedere

Closed14 April 2011

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GBP 23,750

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Angelica Kauffman, R.A. (Chur, Graubünden 1741-1807 Rome)
Portrait of lady, believed to be Elizabeth Muncaster, née Dale, three-quarter-length, in a dress with a pearl clasp and a yellow mantle, flowers in her hair, holding a laurel wreath, before a bust of the Apollo Belvedere
signed and dated 'Angelica Pinx 1768' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Philips, London, 6 June 1989, lot 31.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams & Weller King, Aspley House, Bedfordshire, 12 October 1999, lot 423.

Specialist note

The sitter is believed to be Elizabeth Dale, daughter of a Whitby surgeon. She was born in circa 1742 and adopted by her aunt, Frances Dale, who married Colonel Charles Hervey Smith of Aspley House, Bedfordshire. Elizabeth married a Mr. Muncaster of Wallsend House, Newcastle. The sitter would have been almost a contemporary of the artist.