ID 1344960
Lot 209 | ARCHIBALD SKIRVING (ATHELSTANEFORD, NEAR HADDINGTON 1749-1819 INVERESK)
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
Portrait of Lady Charlotte Susan Campbell (1775-1861), daughter of the 5th Duke of Argyll, bust-length
pastel on paper, oval
18 ½ x 15 ½ in. (47 x 39.2 cm.)
Provenance
The artist's studio, 1819.
Captain Wilkie, by 1863.
Mrs Leila Hoskins, Cheltenham by 1974.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1979, lot 133 (with its pendant) as 67.5 x 54.5 cm. (sold £500).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Edingburgh, 15 May 1997, lot 578 as 46 x 38 cm. (unsold).
with The Fine Art Society, London, 1993.
Literature
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.682.113.
Exhibited
Edinburgh, 1863, no. 352.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Raeburn's Rival Archibald Skirving 1794-1819, 1999, no. 98, fig. 18.
| Applied technique: | Painted, Pastel |
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| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Applied technique: | Painted, Pastel |
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| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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