Lot 129: Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)

Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)
Portrait of Miss Frances Sophia Hunter, three-quarter-length, seated in a wooded landscape in a white dress with a pink sash
with identifying inscription on an old label (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
in an elaborate carved and gilded frame

Sir Lepel Griffin (1838-1908), the sitter's son.
with The Grafton Galleries, London.
Colonel G.H. Hoare, who sold it in 1919 to Reinhardt & Son, New York.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, where purchased by Stella S. Rowen in 1963, and thence by descent in her family;
Sotheby's, London, 18 May 2001, lot 132 (£25,000).

Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)
Portrait of Miss Frances Sophia Hunter, three-quarter-length, seated in a wooded landscape in a white dress with a pink sash
with identifying inscription on an old label (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
in an elaborate carved and gilded frame