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  • A PAIR OF GEORGE III ENAMEL OVAL PLAQUES BY W. H. CRAFT, DATED 1788 AND 1789
    Apr. 07, 2004

    A PAIR OF GEORGE III ENAMEL OVAL PLAQUES BY W. H. CRAFT, DATED 1788 AND 1789

    Est: $5,000 - $7,000

    each depicting an allegorical figure in classical dress, one signed WH Craft. 1789., the other signed W:H: Craft. 1788., and with a sheet of music inscribed God save Great George our King. CATALOGUE NOTE William Hopkins Craft (1730-1811) was a well known enamel painter who is recorded as having exhibited examples of his work at the Royal Academy from 1774, his addresses including 100 St. Martin's Lane, 23 Church Street, Soho, and 1 Bedford Street. He showed portraits, decorative scenes, and allegorical subjects as in the present examples, although it was said of him that he was 'very good in manipulation, but very weak in art' (Foster, op. cit.) At one time he was in partnership with another artist David Rhodes, both being employed by Wedgwood, and his brother Thomas was a painter at the Bow porcelain factory. A number of signed works by Craft are recorded including a large oval plaque depicting a rustic scene in the manner of Boucher, and a pair of gilt metal mounted cassolets, dated 1787, in the Untermyer collection (Hackenbroch op. cit.) See: Basil S. Long, British Miniaturists, London, 1924, p. 105 Yvonne Hackenbroch, Bronzes and Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Collection of Irwin Untermyer, pl. 193, fig. 217. Susan Benjamin, English Enamel Boxes, New York, 1978

    Sotheby's
  • WILLIAM HOPKINS CRAFT (c. 1730/35?-1811)
    Apr. 11, 2002

    WILLIAM HOPKINS CRAFT (c. 1730/35?-1811)

    Est: $572 - $858

    A young gentleman, facing right in blue coat with gold buttons, striped yellow waistcoat and lace cravat, powdered wig en queue enamel on copper oval, 7/8 in. (23 mm.) high, gold brooch frame with leaf border PROVENANCE Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27-28 April 1983, lot 321 (to Dreesmann). Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-135).

    Christie's
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