Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1785
Lot 222

FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1785

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 4,375

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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1785
A lady called Magdalena Antonia Hope, née van der Poll (1748-1808), in white silk dress, edged with lace at cuffs and bodice, lace shawl, seated next to a table with a rose and a vase
on ivory
2¾ in. (72 mm.) diam., gold frame, marked Paris, 1782, with split- pearl border

Sotheby's, Geneva, 14 May 1987, lot 98 (as in the Manner of Augustin Dubourg, on the cover of a gold bonbonnière)

Specialist note

Magdalena Antonia Hope, née van der Poll (1748-1808) was a daughter of Burghermaster Jan van der Poll. In 1774, she married Jonkheer Archibald Hope (1747-1821), an Amsterdam merchant and shareholder in the Dutch East India Company, who became an M.P. in 1815.