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John Smart

(1741-1811) Ann Chase (née Rand) (1759-1837), wearing pale pink dress, frilled lace collar and pale pink ribbons, her hair powdered
1788
Watercolour on ivory in original gold ‘Colonial’ frame, with engraved border, the reverse with glazed aperture to reveal gold initials ‘AC’
Oval, 2 ½ in. (65 mm) high

Provenance


Thomas Chase (1762-1808), Madras and London;

Probably by descent to his daughter Rebecca Chase (1798-1877), London;

By descent to his grand-daughter Eliza Rebecca Bingham née Chase (1820-1901), Tunbridge Wells;

Possibly to his great-grandson Alexander Edmund Coutts Trotter (1846-1913), Milton Bridge, Midlothian;

In the collection of John Ross Menzies (1852-1935), West Links House, North Berwick;

By whom sold at Sotheby’s London, 28 June 1935, lot 153, as ‘A Miniature of Lady Colville, by John Smart, signed and dated 1788’;

Private Collection, UK, until 2021.