Live Auction 21043The Collection of Sir Nicholas Goodison - British Art: Innovation and Craftsmanship
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, R.A. (1804-1876)
Lot 230

JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, R.A. (1804-1876)

Harriet Ford's maid

Closed25 May 2022

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JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, R.A. (1804-1876)
Harriet Ford's maid
signed, inscribed and dated 'J.F.Lewis/ 1833/ Seville' (lower right)
pencil, black chalk and watercolour heightened with white on buff paper
12 1⁄2 x 9 3⁄4 in. (31.8 x 24.8 cm.)

Possibly Lord Prudhoe.
Acquired from Thos Agnew & Sons, London, January 1981.

Specialist note


This drawing was probably painted during Lewis's tour of Spain while staying with Richard and Harriet Ford. It has previously been suggested that it depicts Harriet Ford, but her great-grandson, the collector Brinsley Ford, identified it as a portrait of her maid. J.F.Lewis made a lithograph of the drawing entitled A Girl of Seville as part of his Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (1836).