Elizabeth Farren (1759-1829), later Countess of Derby, looking to her right, wearing white dress with pale cream sash, ruffled collar and fichu tied with pale cream ribbon, her powdered curled hair falling over her left shoulder gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal wooden reverse with label inscribed in Horace Walpole's hand Miss Farren/ the/ Incomparable/ Actress/ 1787 Oval, 76mm. (3ins.) high Provenance: Horace Walpole (1717-1797); Strawberry Hill, 6 May 1842, lot 50 (16gns. to the Countess of Wilton) Walter and Gertrude Rappolt Exhibited: S.N.P.G. 2000-2003 Literature: D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, II, illustrated p.89, no.245 D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, illustrated opp. p.377, colour pl. 29E D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, illustrated opp. p.377, colour pl. 29E
Elizabeth Farren (1759-1829), later Countess of Derby, looking to her right, wearing white dress with pale cream sash, ruffled collar and fichu tied with pale cream ribbon, her powdered curled hair falling over her left shoulder gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal wooden reverse with label inscribed in Horace Walpole's hand Miss Farren/ the/ Incomparable/ Actress/ 1787 Oval, 76mm. (3ins.) high Provenance: Horace Walpole (1717-1797); Strawberry Hill, 6 May 1842, lot 50 (16gns. to the Countess of Wilton) Walter and Gertrude Rappolt Exhibited: S.N.P.G. 2000-2003 Literature: D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, II, illustrated p.89, no.245 D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, illustrated opp. p.377, colour pl. 29E D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, illustrated opp. p.377, colour pl. 29E
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