Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 307. Portrait of Lady Emily Macleod, née Stuart (1760-1854), circa 1775.

Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Jeremiah Meyer

Portrait of Lady Emily Macleod, née Stuart (1760-1854), circa 1775

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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Jeremiah Meyer

Tübingen 1735 - 1789 London

Portrait of Lady Emily Macleod, née Stuart (1760-1854), circa 1775


watercolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount, set into an ivory locket, the lid with hair reserve;

the inside of locket contains the following note: this picture / of the late Lady Emily / Macleod my earliest friend / is at my death to be given / or sent to her youngest son / Lt Colonel Henry Macleod / Louisa Stuart.

4.6 by 3.6 cm., 1¾ by 1½ in.

Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851), the sitter's sister;
Lieutentant-Colonel Henry MacLeod, the sitter's son;
By descent to Francis and Minnie Wellesley;
Their sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 June - 2 July, lot 678 (as by George Romney);
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 March 1976, lot 91;
With Edwin Bucher, by 1979
G.C. Williamson, 'Mr Francis Wellesley's Collection of Miniatures and Drawings, The Connoisseur, June 1918, p. 76, no. 202, (as George Romney);
F. Wellesley, Catalogue of the Miniatures and Portraits in Plumbago or Pencil belonging to Francis and Minnie Wellesley, Woking/London 1918, p. 102 (as George Romney);
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London 1972, p. 478 (as George Romney);
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge 1987, p. 632 (as George Romney)
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1914-1918 (on-loan)
The sitter was the youngest daugther of John, 3rd Earl of Bute.