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aquarelle sur papier d'Agnes Armstrong (XIXe, GB), 'Portrait de Susannah Peyton', 1891

Result 72 CHF

Description

aquarelle sur papier d'Agnes Armstrong (XIXe, GB), 'Portrait de Susannah Peyton', 1891. Âgée d'une cinquantaine d'années, un sourire se dessine sur son visage. Son buste est tourné légèrement vers la gauche, devant un paysage. Un bonnet orné de dentelle blanche entoure son cou et couvre sa tête, laissant apparaître quelques boucles de cheveux bruns.

Mentionné à l'encre au dos du carton de protection "This is a copy of the portrait of Susanna, daughter of the Rev.d S.7. Swinden Rectos of Slifford, Epex: She married first Jonathan Gurnell Esqre of Great …She left her a widow in the year 179… She married secondly Rear Admiral John Peyton. Painted by Sir William Beechey R.A. in the year 1825. Copied by Agnes Amstrong in the year 1891".

Non signé. Dans son cadre d'époque en laiton à décor de fleurs.

H. ovale: 14x10.8 cm

Provenance: Fondation Paynter de Boskenna, Cornwall.

Références

Bibliographie:

"Lease by Admiral John Peyton of Priestland, Hants., and his wife, Susannah, to Charles Bicknell, and release of a piece of ground at Castle Bear Hill, part of Pitshanger Farm, estimated at 2a. 2r. 5p., abutting south on the pleasure ground of His Royal Highness Edward, Duke of Kent, by John and Susannah Peyton, Robert Campbell late of Creed Place, Gloucester, now of Croomshill, Blackheath, Kent, esq., and John Harman of London, merchant, to Charles Bicknell. (Recites a marriage settlement of 9 June, 1780, between Jonathan Gurnell of Ealing, esq., and Susannah Swinden of Bedford Square, spinster, of which Robert Campbell and John Harman were surviving trustees in 1805. After the death of Jonathan Gurnell his widow married John Peyton). ACC/1028/039-040 1805". Wetherall family, London Metropolitan Archives.