Lady Charlotte Finch China, Guangzhou/ Canton, produced for the English market, late 18th / early 19th C. - image-1

Lot 58 Dα

Lady Charlotte Finch China, Guangzhou/ Canton, produced for the English market, late 18th / early 19th C.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.500 € - 4.000 €
Result: 1.638 € (incl. premium)
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Lady Charlotte Finch
China, Guangzhou/ Canton, produced for the English market, late 18th / early 19th C.

Glass panel painted on reverse in transparent pigments. Ebonised, gilded and sanded softwood frame, H 47, W 36.5 cm.

This reverse glass painting follows the mezzotint of the English engraver John Faber the Younger (1684 - 1756), born in The Hague, after a painting by John Robinson (1715 - 1745).

Lady Charlotte Finch (1725 - 1813) was the governess of the children of King George III and Queen Charlotte (née Duchess of Mecklenburg) as of 1762. The painting was probably created shortly before her marriage in 1746 to William Finch, a British diplomat.

Provenance

Auctioned by Hampel, Munich 1999.

Literature

Illus. in Geyssant, Peintures sous verre. Eglomisés fixés et estampes sous verre de l'antiquité à nos jours, Paris 2008, p. 169.
Illus. in Steiner, ... eine andere Art von Malerey. Hinterglasgemälde und ihre Vorlagen 1550 - 1850, Berlin-Munich 2012, illus. 73.

Exhibitions

2005 - 2006 "Eleganz in Glanz", Barockmuseum Salzburg.
2008 Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg.