Property from the collection of the l꧋ate Dr Erika Polh-St🌊röher (1919-2016)
RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. | SELF-PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1800
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Property from the collection 🅷of the late Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919ꦚ-2016)
RICHARD COSWAY, R.A.
Oakford, Devon 1742 - 1821 London
SELF-PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1800
Pencil heightened with watercol𒁃our on laid paper, original mount;
inscribed in a later hand, verso: Cosway Drawn by himself
unframed: 231 by 141 mm
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Sale, London, 🧔;Cꩲhristie's, 19 March 1980, lot 31;
where acqui♔re💫d by Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016)
This self-portrait is datable on stylistic grounds to circa 1800-8. It relates to two other portrait drawings by Cosway: a portrait of King George III and a portrait of his son, and Cosway’s great patron The Prince of Wales. Both of these works are held in private collections.1
This drawing formed part of the collection of Dr Pohl-Ströher. For more information on this collector please 🧔seeꦫ lot 244.
We are grateful to Dr 💃Stephen Lloyd for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
1. S. Lloyd, Richard & Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion, Londo🔯n, 1995-6, p. 127, cat. nos. 157 & 1♚58, not ill.