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    • Roberts (James, circa 1740-1809). Actor in Costume, watercolour
      Mar. 13, 2024

      Roberts (James, circa 1740-1809). Actor in Costume, watercolour

      Est: £200 - £300

      Roberts (James, circa 1740-1809). Actor in Costume, watercolour * Roberts (James, circa 1740-1809). Actor in Costume, watercolour, depicting a well dressed young gentleman wearing a white, green and red feathered hat, a white jacket and red pantaloons with gold tassles and frogging, green cumberband and black shoes with red and green rosettes, signed lower right, 17 x 12 cm (6 5/8 x 4 6/8 ins), mounted, framed and glazed (32.5 x 26 cm) QTY: (1) NOTE: Roberts is best known for whole-length portraits of actors in character for John Bell's British Theatre. He also signs himself as portrait painter to the Duke of Clarence on a stipple engraving of Prince Henry Lubomirski by John Jones after Anne Damer and a watercolour of Dame Creole du Perou, 1797.

      Dominic Winter Auctions
    • James Roberts (born 1753) - Four panoramic
      Feb. 11, 2014

      James Roberts (born 1753) - Four panoramic

      Est: £200 - £300

      James Roberts (born 1753) - Four panoramic engravings (from drawings taken by Lt. Sandby of the 12th Regiment) - "The North, West and South Views of Gibraltar" and "The View of the Grand Attack on Gibraltar, September 13th 1782", each 7.75ins x 17.75ins, published August 16th 1785, in Hogarth frames and glazed

      Canterbury Auction Galleries
    • James Roberts c.1754, Portrait miniature,
      Dec. 12, 2007

      James Roberts c.1754, Portrait miniature,

      Est: £200 - £300

      James Roberts c.1754, Portrait miniature, depicting a young girl, traditionally held to be Miss Samuel, bust-length, wearing a bonnet, watercolour, bears inscription verso, 9.5x7.5cm: British school 18/19th century portrait miniature, depicting a woman in profile, wearing a bonnet and scarlet coat, watercolour and pencil, oval: A British Provincial school, portrait miniature, depicting a young woman, bust-length, turned to the left, oval: together with four 19th century ebonised portrait miniature frames of various sizes, (7)

      Roseberys
    • James Roberts (Oxford active 1753-c.1809)
      Jan. 24, 2003

      James Roberts (Oxford active 1753-c.1809)

      Est: $20,000 - $30,000

      Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley, small full-length, in a white dress and holding a garland of white flowers in a landscape, as 'Imoinda' in Ooronoka ; Portrait of Madame Giovanna Baccelli, small full-length, in a gold and brown dress and holding a bow and arrow in a landscape, in the ballet, Les Amants Surpris oil on canvas 351/2 x 273/4 in. (90.2 x 70.5 cm.) a pair (2) ENGRAVED the first, engraved by J. Thornwaite, as a plate to Bell's British Theatre, published by G. Cawthorn, 1796. the second, engraved by J. Thornwaite, as a plate to Bell's British Theatre, 1781. LITERATURE F. O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits in the British Museum, I, London, 1908, p. 99 & II, London, 1910, p. 457. NOTES Roberts was a painter of figures in small scale in oils and watercolors, who entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1771 and was an exhibitor at the Academy between 1773-99. He practiced as a drawing master at Oxford between about 1784-94 and by 1795 he was Portrait Painter to the Duke of Clarence. He is last recorded in 1809 when he published the work, Introductory lessons... in watercolours. Elizabeth Hartley, ne‚ White (1751-1824) was an actress who was described by a contemporary source as having, 'a good figure, with a handsome small face, and very freckled; her hair red, and her neck and shoulders well-turned'. The celebrated Italian dancer, Giovanna Baccelli (d. 1801) was the principal ballerina at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, where she first appeared in 1774. She is depicted in the role and accompanying costume from the ballet Les Amants Surpris which was the great success of the 1781-82 season. Baccelli was also well-known as the mistress of John, 3rd Duke of Dorset, who commissioned a full-length portrait of her from Thomas Gainsborough in the same role (Tate Gallery, London).

      Christie's
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