£600
Five Centuries: Furniture & Works of Art inc. Property of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres | 609
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture & Works of Art inc. Property of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres
the first in watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, the sitter with long brown hair tied with a grey ribbon, in a white dress with ruffle edge; the second sitter a young lady with brown hair tied back with a grey scarf, in a pink ruffle edge dress, initial M to the lower right; the last purportedly a portrait of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire after Richard Cosway, en grisaille with watercolour and ink on card, the sitter with a large blue-striped hat with ostrich feathers, with initials R. C. 1798, the reverse inscribed in French La Duchesse Georgina (sic) Devinshire (sic) par R Cosway, coll. Duc Le Hamilton
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