WILLIAM GRIMALDI (1751-1830)
A fine portrait miniature of an unknown Gentleman
1783 United Kingdom
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Wearing a blue coat, white waistcoat and red vest, large white tied cravat
set in the original frame the reverse with gold monogram JG on blue glass
In the Catalogue of paintings Drawings and Engravings by William Grimaldi, which was privately printed in 1873 there are only two miniatures recorded as being painted in 1793 and both of them were Ladies. This suggests that the sitter in this portrait may not have paid for it and hence there is no record of it in the catalogue.
Grimaldi is one of the leading artists working at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century being employed as Enamel Painter to George IV.
set in the original frame the reverse with gold monogram JG on blue glass
In the Catalogue of paintings Drawings and Engravings by William Grimaldi, which was privately printed in 1873 there are only two miniatures recorded as being painted in 1793 and both of them were Ladies. This suggests that the sitter in this portrait may not have paid for it and hence there is no record of it in the catalogue.
Grimaldi is one of the leading artists working at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century being employed as Enamel Painter to George IV.
Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives in Dublin, in 2009
The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (Dublin, privately published, 2009) pp 9, 45 (#180).
Dimensions
| Height | 7.90 cm | (3.11 inches) |
Stock Code
4671
Medium
watercolour on ivory
Signed/Inscribed
Signed and dated 1793 on the obverse
Ellison Fine Art
Ellison Fine Art
London
United Kingdom