Lot 190: A REGENCY REVERSE-GLASS PAINTED SILHOUETTE GROUP

A REGENCY REVERSE-GLASS PAINTED SILHOUETTE GROUP
BY CHARLES ROSENBERG (1745-1844), CIRCA 1800
Depicting, from left to right: Sir William Fawcet or Master General; Frederick, Duke of York; the Duke of Wirtemburg; George III and Queen Charlotte; the Stadholder; and George IV when Prince of Wales, beneath trees, in a moulded giltwood frame, with red wax Spencer seal to the reverse, printed paper label 'ROSENBERG, Profile painter to their Majesties, THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES The Prince and Princess of Wales, AND THE DUKE AND DUTCHESS OF YORK, No. 14, GROVE, BATH, inscribed in ink with the names of those depicted, and in chalk '10J'
12 x 15¼ in. (30.5 x 39 cm.)

'THE ESPLANADE AT WEYMONTH'
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In 1788 George III suffered his first attack of porphyria. In 1789 he went to recuperate at the seaside town of Weymouth. He was later to purchase Gloucester Lodge on the Esplanade from his brother the Duke of Gloucester.

Charles Rosenberg was a silhouette painter on glass, believed to be Austrian by birth, and said to have arrived in England in the entourage of Queen Charlotte as a young page. Works by Rosenberg in the Royal Collection include silhouettes of the Princess Royal, and of Princesses Augusta, Elizabeth and Sophia painted during their stay at Cheltenham in 1788. Other royal commissions followed and Rosenberg used the title Profile Painter to their Majesties and Royal Family throughout the 1790s.