Live Auction 10713Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours
John Downman, A.R.A. (Ruabon, Wales 1750-1824 Wrexham)
Lot 183

John Downman, A.R.A. (Ruabon, Wales 1750-1824 Wrexham)

Portrait of Mrs. John Langston, half-length, seated, wearing a white dress and blue sash and a white bonnet with pink and blue striped ribbon

Closed9 December 2015

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GBP 812

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John Downman, A.R.A. (Ruabon, Wales 1750-1824 Wrexham)
Portrait of Mrs. John Langston, half-length, seated, wearing a white dress and blue sash and a white bonnet with pink and blue striped ribbon
signed and dated 'Jo Downman/ 1790' (lower right), and further inscribed 'Mrs La[ngston]...' (lower right, overmounted)
pencil, black and white chalk and stump and watercolour, oval
8 7/8 x 7 3/8 in. (22.5 x 18.7 cm.), irregular

with Vicars Brothers, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 November 1991, lot 31, where purchased by the present owner.