Live Auction 10398Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ASCRIBED TO ANDREW ROBERTSON (SCOTTISH, 1777-1845)
Lot 460

ASCRIBED TO ANDREW ROBERTSON (SCOTTISH, 1777-1845)

Closed2 December 2015

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ASCRIBED TO ANDREW ROBERTSON (SCOTTISH, 1777-1845)

An artist called Sir William Charles Ross, R.A. (1794-1860), holding an artist's palette in his left hand, a paintbrush in his right
On ivory
Rectangular, 89 x 67 mm., gilt-metal frame
A very worn paper label on the reverse of the frame is inscribed 'Sir [...] Ross RA / [...] Andrew Robertson whilst his pupil / Chas [...]'

Specialist note

Sir William Charles Ross studied at the Royal Academy schools before becoming an assistant to Andrew Robertson. There is a portrait of the sitter in older age by Hugh Ross, the sitter's brother, in the National Portrait Gallery, London (inv. no. NPG1946)