GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)

Lady Betty Foster, facing right in white dress with wide spotted lace collar, pink ribbon tied at corsage, powdered curling hair

细节

GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)
Lady Betty Foster, facing right in white dress with wide spotted lace collar, pink ribbon tied at corsage, powdered curling hair
oval, 2 in. (51 mm.) high, gold fausse-montre frame with blue glass reverse set with hinged cover

出版

G. C. Williamson and H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 96.

拍品专文

Elizabeth (d. 1824), daughter of Frederick Augustus, 4th Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Jermyn Damers, Bt., married in 1776 John Thomas Foster, member of the Irish Parliament and secondly in 1809 William Spencer, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811).
Williamson and Engleheart (op. cit.) record that Lady E. Foster sat to Engleheart in 1787.