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Signed with initials and dated ‘J.S. / 1790 / I’ for India lower right Watercolour on ivory in gilt-metal mount in rectangular wood frame set with gilt-metal cartouche engraved ‘Benjamin Roebuck Esqr. M.C.S.’ Oval, 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) high

John Smart

(1741-1811) Benjamin Roebuck, M.C.S. (d. 1809), in blue coat
1790
Watercolour on ivory in gilt-metal mount in rectangular wood frame set with gilt-metal cartouche engraved ‘Benjamin Roebuck Esqr. M.C.S.’
Oval, 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) high

Provenance

Friedrich Neuburg Collection, Litomerice, Moravia; Part I, Hôtel Drouot, 27th March 1939, lot 88;
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen (inv. nos. MD/0182 and 541);

Christie’s, London, Treasured Portraits from the Collection of Ernst Holzscheiter, 4th July 2018, lot 13;

Private Collection, UK.