Oil paintings, watercolours, prints, miniatures & sculpture - 24th September 2014

Lot 169

Edwin Dalton Smith (1800-1883) Portrait of Lady Sophia Deacon aged seven

Estimate £400 - £600

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Description

Edwin Dalton Smith (1800-1883)

Portrait of Lady Sophia Deacon aged seven, full-length in a garden carrying a basket

Signed and dated 1838

Watercolour with bodycolour

32.5 x 24.5cm; 12¾ x 9in

Provenance:

Lord Courthope, Whiligh, Wadhurst, East Sussex

By descent until 2011

Lady Sophia Deacon died, aged twenty-one, in 1852.