SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/1756 - 1808)
A mother seated with her daughter: the lady in white dress with peach striped surcoat, white gauze scarf covering her curling powdered upswept hair, clutching a string of pearls in her right hand; the young daughter in white dress with a blue shawl around her shoulders; pillar and woodland background
signed, inscribed and dated on the backing card '1787/ Painted by / Sam: Shelley / Henrietta Street / Covent Garden / Exhibited at the / Royal Academy'
on ivory
oval, 3.7/8 in. (97 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
SAMUEL SHELLEY (BRITISH, 1750/1756 - 1808)
A mother seated with her daughter: the lady in white dress with peach striped surcoat, white gauze scarf covering her curling powdered upswept hair, clutching a string of pearls in her right hand; the young daughter in white dress with a blue shawl around her shoulders; pillar and woodland background
signed, inscribed and dated on the backing card '1787/ Painted by / Sam: Shelley / Henrietta Street / Covent Garden / Exhibited at the / Royal Academy'
on ivory
oval, 3.7/8 in. (97 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
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