Description
Miniature on copper, gilt and ebonised frame
Dimensions
7.5cm x 5.5cm (3in x 2.25in), oval
Footnote
Note: This miniature is a copy after Antonio David (Italian 1698-1737) Maria Clementina, 1719. Following her marriage to James VIII and III, a portrait of Clementina with appropriate royal regalia was urgently required to be sent to Paris as well as engraved and distributed. David was commissioned to paint this work, with the crown visible on the left hand side of the composition. It was engraved by a variety of engravers though not always correctly attributed as after David. Some of the later copies omit the crown, making the subject more difficult to identify and thus safer for those artworks to be sent to Scotland and England.