[Rebeccas Rushout] [A Lady and her Children.]
Painted by D. Gardiner. Engraved by Tho.s Watson. Publish'd Jan.y 1st 1778. for T. Watson no.142 New Bond Street, & W. Dickinson, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London. Mezzotint, proof before title. 485 x 525mm (19 x 20¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. A superb impression of this group portrait of Lady Rebecca Rushout and her three eldest children by John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick: Anne, Harriet, and John. Anne, Harriet and a third sister, Elizabeth, were dubbed 'The Charming Sisters' by the artist Andrew Plimer (1763-1837). CS: 31. Goodwin 32, state ii of iv.
[Ref: 59437] £1,250.00