John Lumsden Propert  (1834-1902).;
John Pierpont Morgan, his sale Christie's London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 247 (bt, £462, Frost and Read);
Anonymous sale, Bonhams London, 22 May 2003, lot 131

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, case XXXVI, p. 111, no. 59

G.C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, vol. II, 1907, no. 264, pl. 41;
The Connoisseur, May, 1907

The minaiture has been well preserved. The colours remain strong and bright. There are two pale spots of foxing in the sky to the right of the sitter. For further information on this lot please contact Mark Griffith-Jones (0207 293 5083) or Emmeline Hallmark (0207 293 5704) mark.griffithjones@laitexier.com emmeline.hallmark@laitexier.com
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In October 1782 Lady Spencer wrote to her daughter, the Duchess of Devonshire, informing her that 'The Prince [of Wales] dresses his hair in a new way, flattish at [the] sides, frizzed and widish at each side and three curls at the bottom of this frizzing'. The present work, datable to the late 1780s, is clearly painted after the Prince had taken up this new style.

The Prince of Wales's name was first listed in Cosway's accounts in🃏 1781; thereafter it appeared frequently. The importance of this royal patronage, which was for a long time strengthened by friendship, led Cosway to sign his works 'Primarius Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis'. However the close friendship came to an end in 1811 following a rift between the artist and the sitter.