現場拍賣 16213Treasured Portraits from the Collection of Ernst Holzscheiter
Richard Cosway, R.A. (British, 1742-1821)
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Richard Cosway, R.A. (British, 1742-1821)

已結束2018年7月4日

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Richard Cosway, R.A. (British, 1742-1821)
Mary Amelia ‘Emily Mary’, 1st Marchioness of Salisbury, née Cecil (1750-1835) in white dress, wearing a blue ribbon around her neck, possibly a house order, suspended with a locket
Signed and dated on the backing card ‘Rdus : Cosway / Primarius Pictor / Serenissimi Walliae / Principis / Pinxit / 1788’
On ivory
Oval, 63 mm. high, gold frame, the reverse set with gold monogram ‘MAC’ on a plaited hair ground

C. B. Carruthers Esq., London.
Edward Joseph Collection, London, inv. no. 24; Christie’s, London, 13 June 1890, lot 1460 (as part of a group of seventy-seven described as ‘The unrivalled collection of miniatures by Richard Cosway, R.A. and contemporary miniaturists, which has been exhibited by Mr Edward Joseph at Windsor Castle by request of H.M. the Queen, also to T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House’), 9,300 gns to Woodrooffe [sic].
Frank Woodroffe Collection.
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1904) Collection, New York; Christie’s, London, 25 June 1935, lot 280 (165 gns to Floersheim).
Miss Ethel Floersheim; Christie’s, London, 26 June 1950, lot 91 (£147 to Backer).
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 8 September 1950 (inv. nos. MD/0502 and 145).

專家說明

The sitter was born in Dublin to Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Devonshire (later 1st Marquess of Downshire) and his first wife, Margaretta FitzGerald, sister of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster. She married James Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, later 1st Marquess of Salisbury (1748-1823) in 1773 and became a noted society and political hostess of the Tory party. She was a keen gambler and horse woman and was often derided for her dress sense, wearing clothes of her own design. After her husband’s death she ran up huge debts but was spared the embarrassment of bankruptcy as she was killed in a fire whilst at her writing desk in the West Wing of Hatfield House. It was thought that the feathers in her hat caught alight. The West Wing was destroyed as a result of the blaze.