Robert White

Sale, Sotheby’s, 29 March 1979, bt. Sir L. Fry

D. Foskett, Miniatures Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge 1987, p. 142, pl. 31E

In general the work is well preserved. The vellum is intact. There is a pinhole at the 6 o'clock position and there is some minor surface dirt throughout.
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Robert White’s drawings are rare in private collections, although there are ten works in the Huntington Library, California and a further thirteen in the British Museum, London. In her dictionary, Daphne Foskett notes that the present drawing is very close in detail to a later portrait of the King by White in the collection of the Dukes of Portland.