J. Highmore Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit.
Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury [n.d. c.1750].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"), with large margins. Staining in edges.
Three-quarter length of a woman leaning on the rim of a fountain. She wears a dress and her cloak is hung across her with a string of pearls. John Faber the Younger (c.1684-1756) also produced a larger, more detailed engraving after the painting, in reverse: see CS 87. Chaloner Smith suggests Jane Collier could be the sitter, adding that Bromley's identification of the lady as a courtesan, also known as Miss Stewart, has not been corroborated. Jane Collier (1714 - March 1755) was an English novelist best known for her book 'An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting' (1753). She also collaborated with Sarah Fielding on her only other surviving work The Cry (1754). Or as identified by the British Museum the first wife of the Honble James Murray, son of the 4th Lord Elibank (q.v.) who died at Beauport (1779).
CS 88, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68573]  £240.00