Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
AFTER WILLIAM WOOD (BRITISH, 1769-1810)
Lot 134

AFTER WILLIAM WOOD (BRITISH, 1769-1810)

Closed20 November 2013

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AFTER WILLIAM WOOD (BRITISH, 1769-1810)
James Fletcher (b. 1768), in blue coat, white waistcoat and cravat
on ivory
oval, 3¼ in. (82 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with plaited hair reverse
Four handwritten labels on the reverse; the first, 'James, son of Revd / Edward Fletcher, born / July 1768, at one time a / physician in the H.E.I.C.S / at Kishnegar in / Bengal. Bro. of E.F. of / H.E.I.C.S'; the second, 'James Fletcher, Esq.'; the third, 'Property of / Evelyn Fletcher'; the fourth, 'Edward Fletcher'.

Presumably by direct family descent to Colonel E. W. Fletcher; Christie's, London, 28 October 1970, lot 86 (as by William Wood).
Christie's, London, 10 July 1991, lot 164 (as by William Wood)
Christie's, London, 27 November 1991, lot 251 (as by William Wood).

Specialist note

James Fletcher was the son of the Rev. Edward Fletcher. Born in 1768, he was at one time a physician in the service of the East India Company, Kishnegur, Bengal.
The present miniature appears to be after a miniature by William Wood though the original has not yet been identified. In the Memorandum of Miniatures painted and finished by William Wood, of the Royal Academy 1790-1808, London [unpublished manuscript in the Victoria & Albert Museum], there are references to a Mr Jas. Fletcher (nos 5855 and 5938). One of these miniatures could be the original after which the present work was copied.