Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Property from an English Private Collection
Francesco Renaldi
Portrait of a Mughal lady, seated in an interior
Auction Closed
December 6, 06:47 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an English Private Collection
Francesco Renaldi
British 1755–after 1798
Portrait of a Mughal lady, seated in an interior
signed, inscribed and dated: Fs RENALDI PINXIT Calcutta / 1787·
oil on canvas
unframed: 99.6 x 71.6 cm.; 39¼ x 28¼ in.
framed: 112.6 x 84.5 cm.; 44⅜ x 33¼ in.
Miss M.J.C. Gray;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 12 March 1969, lot 98A, where acquired by the present collector.
M. Archer, 'Renaldi and India: A Romantic Encounter', Apollo, vol. 104, no. 174, August 1976, pp. 100-1, reproduced fig. 4;
M. Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770–1825, London and New York 1979, p. 286, reproduced pl. 198;
M. Archer & R. Lightbown, India Observed: India as viewed by British Artists, 1760–1860, exh. cat., London 1982, p. 38, under cat. no. 10;
H. Almeida & G.H. Gilpin, Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India, Abingdon-on-Thames 2005, p. 85;
D. Kamińska-Jones, 'England's affair with India. Bibi in the art of European Artists in the second half of the eighteenth century', in B. Lakomska (ed.), The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures, vol. 2, Krakow 2013, pp. 102-3;
P. de Silva, Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785–1845: Visualising Identity and Difference, Cambridge 2018, pp. 66-67.
Possibly, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1791, no. 399;
Possibly, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1797, no. 733.