Lot 101: Circle of John Smibert (Edinburgh 1688-1751 Boston)

Circle of John Smibert (Edinburgh 1688-1751 Boston)
Portrait of Elizabeth Kettle (1730-1800), subsequently the wife of John Scott, as a child, full-length, in a blue dress, holding a parakeet with her right hand, beside a fountain, a wooded landscape beyond
oil on canvas
47½ x 38 in. (121 x 96.5 cm.)
in an early 18th Century bolection frame

D. Hall, 'Diane the Huntress', The World of Interiors, October, 1992, p. 166.

Diane and Thomas Berger, London; Christie's, London, 12 February 1998, lot 11, as 'Follower of James Latham'.

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