Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
ASCRIBED TO CHARLOTTE HADFIELD (BRITISH, FL. C. 1793)
Lot 11

ASCRIBED TO CHARLOTTE HADFIELD (BRITISH, FL. C. 1793)

Closed20 November 2013

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ASCRIBED TO CHARLOTTE HADFIELD (BRITISH, FL. C. 1793)
A young lady, in white dress with blue sash, double strand pearl necklace, drop-pearl earring, white headscarf in her upswept curling powdered hair; sky background
inscribed on the backing card 'Charl Hadfield / London / 1793'
on ivory
oval, 2.5/8 in. (72 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with enamel and pearl reverse with diamond-set initial 'K', in hinged fitted red leather case

The Property of Mrs J. H. Barnes dec'd (sold by order of the Executors); (+) Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1974, lot 44 (as by Charlotte Hadfield, sister-in-law to Richard Cosway).
Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1979, lot 148 (as by Charlotte Hadfield).
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 1992 (as by Charlotte Hadfield).

Specialist note

According to D. Foskett (op. cit., p. 517), the present miniature is by Charlotte Hadfield, the sister of Richard Cosway's wife, Maria Hadfield (1759/1760-1838). Charlotte married 'William Combe, the comic poet, noted for his Tours of Dr. Syntax, etc.'