Lot 193: E. W. THOMSON (BRITISH, 1770-1847)]

A young lady called Princess Lieven (1784-1857), in white dress with voluminous sleeves, pink sash with gold buckle and pink stole draped around her arms, elaborate lace bonnet adorned with pink roses and foliage and long untied pink ribbons in her upswept and curled brown hair
signed and dated 'EWThomson del 1827' (mid-left) and located 'Rue du faubourg S t. Honoré' (mid-right)
watercolour and pencil on card
oval, 6 11/16 in. (171 mm.) high, ormolu mount within rectangular ebonised wooden frame with foliate ormolu spandrels

Arenberg, Napoleonmuseum, Miniaturen und Karikaturen, 1954, no. 37 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire,Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache, 1956, no. 437 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen).

G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures - The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1906, IV, p. 642.
G. C. Williamson, 'Portrait Miniatures', The Studio, 1910, p. 29, illustrated pl. XLIII.
C. Mauclair, Les Miniatures de L'Empire et de la Restauration - Portraits de Femmes, Paris, 1913, illustrated opp. p. 44.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 861 (praised as 'excellent'), p. 1054, illustrated IV, pl. 580, p. 1173.
D. Foskett, A Dictionnary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, I, p. 547, illustrated II, pl. 367, no. 904.
D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, p. 316.
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 316, 663.

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York; Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 647 (52gns. to Seal).
Harry Seal; Christie's, London, 16 February 1949, lot 14 (36gns. to Gregg).
Sold by Leo R. Schidlof, London, to Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, on 15 May 1954.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen, inv. no. 578, M/D 0628; sale, part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 128.

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