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Captain, The Hon. Edmund Phipps
Miniaturist: Cosway, Richard
History note: In Sotheby' sale (other properties) 20 November 1945 (44); Robert H. Rockliffe; his sale Sotheby's, 11 November 1947 (101), illus., where bought by Louis C.G. Clarke
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 51 mm
Width: 43 mm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Production date: AD 1788 : There is heavy work on the face which is common in Cosway's pre-1790 portraits but which he discarded from about that date.
Support composed of ivory
Watercolour : Watercolour on ivory
Accession number: PD.198-1961
Primary reference Number: 17675
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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