Lot 144: WALTER STEPHENS LETHBRIDGE (BRITISH, 1771/2-1831)

WALTER STEPHENS LETHBRIDGE (BRITISH, 1771/2-1831)
A young lady, seated at a table with a jewel casket, in blue dress with puff sleeves, a long gold chain tucked into sash worn around waist, coral necklace, black gem-set choker and corresponding bracelets and gold earring, her fair hair elaborately dressed in ringlets, her right arm resting on the table covered with green cloth
signed and dated on the backing card 'W S Lethbridge Pinxit ad vivum 1829 nυo. 391 Strand London'
on ivory
rectangular, 2 9/16 x 2¾ in. (90 x 70 mm.), gilt-metal mount

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 497, IV, illustrated pl. 365, fig. 735.

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