Lot 24: GUGLIELMO FAIJA (ITALIAN, 1803-1873)

GUGLIELMO FAIJA (ITALIAN, 1803-1873)
Miss Faija, the artist's sister, in lace-bordered décolleté white dress trimmed with blue ribbon, blue sash tied around waist, seated in a red upholstered chair and holding a bouquet of flowers, blue curtain and sky background
signed and dated 'Faija 1839' (lower right)
on card
oval, 5 in. (127 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with chiselled scalloped border

Mrs Jane Purvis; Sotheby's, London, 22 April 1968, lot 63 (unframed). Christie's, London, 23 October 1989, lot 39.

GUGLIELMO FAIJA (ITALIAN, 1803-1873)
Miss Faija, the artist's sister, in lace-bordered décolleté white dress trimmed with blue ribbon, blue sash tied around waist, seated in a red upholstered chair and holding a bouquet of flowers, blue curtain and sky background
signed and dated 'Faija 1839' (lower right)
on card
oval, 5 in. (127 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with chiselled scalloped border