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Lot 28 D‡α

A portrait miniature of F.D. Massy-Dawson

Auction 1173 - overview Cologne
02.06.2021, 14:00 - Jewellery and Boxes
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.000 € (incl. premium)
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A portrait miniature of F.D. Massy-Dawson

Gouache on ivory bust of a young man against a red velvet drapery dressed in a dark coloured jacket and a black neck scarf. Indistinctly signed and dated on the right margin. The reverse inscribed and dated “Painted by S. Rochard, 281 Regent Street London July 1829”. 9.5 x 7 cm. In the original fire-gilt bronze frame and leather bound travel case with velvet lining.
Simon Jacques Rochard, London 1829.

Although resident in London, Francis Dennis Massy-Dawson (1803 - 1870) owned large swathes of land in Jamaica, among them the large farms Trout Hall and Chisholm's Mammee Gully Pen in Clarendon. He was married in his first marriage to Susan St. Clair, daughter of Charles St. Clair 4th/13th Lord Sinclair. <BR>The miniaturist Simon Jacques Rochard (Paris 1788 - Brussels 1872), a pupil of Jean Baptiste Isabey among others, is one of the best representatives of his time. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before moving to London, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1816 to 1845 and enjoyed great success in aristocratic circles. From 1848 he was based in Brussels and in 1861 he exhibited at the World's Fair.

Literature

For more about this artist see Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz 1964, p. 687 f.