The Honble. Miss Henrietta Duncan. Dedicated by permission to the Honble. Miss Mary Duncan by Her most obedt. Servant W. Douglas.
William Douglas Pinxt. & Scult. [n.d., c.1820.] Stipple partly printed in colours, 330 x 435mm. 13 x 17¼". Tear into plate upper left. Some soiling. An infant girl on a reclining couch, by William Douglas (1780 - 1832). A miniature painter, Douglas was apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver at Edinburgh, John Burnet the engraver being one of his fellow-apprentices. He had numerous patrons, especially the Duke of Buccleuch and his family, and on 9 July 1817 he was appointed miniature-painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. His miniatures were much esteemed for their tasteful and delicate execution. Some of these were exhibited by him at the Royal Academy in London in 1818, 1819, 1826, including a portrait of Lieutenant-general Sir John Hope.
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