Property from the collection of 🍸the late Dr Erika Polꦏh-Ströher (1919-2016)
JOHN SMART | SELF-PORTRAIT
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Property from🧔 the collection of the late🅰 Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)
JOHN SMART
Norwich 1742 - 1811 London
SELF-PORTRAIT
Pencil on laid paper, unframed;
signed and dated, lower centre: John Smart delineavit Seipsum Madras. 1793
unframed: 198 by 174 mm
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By descent within the artist's family until,
sale,🌟 London, Sotheby's, 19 October 1981, lot 184,
where acq🐭uired by Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)
Along with Richard Cosway 🐷and George Engleheart, John 𝔉;Smart is considered by many to be the greatest English portrait miniature painter of the eighteenth century.
Smart drew this rare self-portrait in Madras, India, where he lived between 1788 and 1797. Self-portraits on ivory by Smart are held in 🥀the collꦉections of the Victorian and Albert Museum (P.11-1940) and the Cleveland Museum of Art, U.S.A. (1952-95).
This wꦬork belonged to the late Dr Erika Polh-Ströher, for further information on this fas❀cinating collector please see lot 244.