JAMES NIXON (BRITISH 1741-1812)
Portrait miniature of a Lady, wearing white robes with a pale pink underdress, a pale blue veil draped from her powdered hair and through a pearl loop on her dress, her hair adorned with further pearls, wooded landscape background
signed with initial, N, lower left
watercolour on ivory
gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal dark brown plaited hair
oval, 83mm (3 1/4in) high
PROVENANCE:
Sale, Bonhams, London, 22 April 2004, The Albion Collection of Fine Portrait Miniatures, lot 113
EXHIBITED:
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2000-2003
The present large scale portrait miniature bears a strong resemblance to the portrait of Mary Wordsworth, Lady Kent, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1777.
This lot is subject to CITES regulations
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