Lot 111: RICHARD COLLINS 1755-1831

including portraits of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry Gawler and John Bellen den Ker after Sir Joshua Reynolds and portraits after George Romney and other hands
nineteen, eighteen on ivory, one on paper, mostly unfinished, unframed
with a portrait of a lady by another hand, unframed (glass cracked)

Quantity: 20

various sizes

THE PROPERTY OF MICHAEL IRELAND BLACKBURNE, ESQ., BY DESCENT THROUGH THE A COURT FAMILY

Richard Collins was born in Gosport on 30th January 1755. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1776 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1777-1818. In 1789 he was appointed principal portrait painter in enamel to George III. He was also patronised by other members of the Royal family and court. He was an adept copyist and copied many of the paintings at Petworth in 1798. He is said to have retired on his savings to Pershore in 1811, but returned to London in circa 1828. He died on 5th August 1831. Examples of his work can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, Windsor Castle and other private collections