Richard Cosway R.A.

wearing a pale yellow fur trimmed coat, a white dress and turban, gold frame

Greta S. Heckett, Pittsburgh, her sale in these Rooms, 11 July 1977, lot 179;
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 19 October 1981, lot 106

Ivory ground. This work is in very fine condition. In the lower section the preparatory scuffing of the ground is visible under magnification.
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Anne, eighth daughter of William, 2^nd Viscount Courtenay, married George Annesley, later 2^nd Earl of Mountnorris, in September 1790. Her brother William, who for a time was the focus of the attentions of the great collector William Beckford, was an important patron of Richard Cosway. Between 1790 and 1812 the 3^rd Viscount commissioned from the artist numerous oil paintings and miniatures of himself and his sisters, the account for which totalled £1,370. His miniature portrait by Cosway, painted circa 1793, was sold, Christie's London, 10 December 2002, lot 120.

Another version of this miniature is in the Edward B. Greene Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated Cleveland 1951, no. 9, pl. XVII.