Live Auction 21042The Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling
ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS (LONDON 1762-1822)
Lot 1042

ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS (LONDON 1762-1822)

Portrait of Miss Hetty Goldsmid (1798-1816), as a young girl, full-length, in a white dress, with a dog in a landscape

Closed27 May 2022

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ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS (LONDON 1762-1822)
Portrait of Miss Hetty Goldsmid (1798-1816), as a young girl, full-length, in a white dress, with a dog in a landscape
oil on canvas
36 x 26 1⁄2 in. (91.5 x 67.5 cm.)

Commissioned by Benjamin Goldsmid (c.1753-1808), and by descent to his youngest son,
Lionel Prager Goldsmid (1797-1866), and by descent to his daughter,
Jessie Sarah Goldsmid (1816-1888), and by descent to her son,
Colonel Albert Goldsmid (1846-1904), and by descent to his daughter,
Gladys, Baroness Swaythling, née Goldsmid (1879-1965), wife of Louis Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling (1869-1927), and thence by descent.

Specialist note


Hetty was the youngest daughter of Benjamin Goldsmid and his wife Jessie. Little is known of her short life, other than that she married James Henry Deacon of Curzon Street in 1815, the year before her death. For further information on the Goldsmid family, please see the essay for lot 1041.

A preparatory watercolour sketch of the present portrait was sold by John Nicholson Fine Art Auctioneers, 5 November 2016, lot 162.