Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1802 and 1853?]
Call Number:
SH Contents H263 no. 11 Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Copy of a portrait of Horace Walpole, probably after Eckardt, with gray wash-line mount
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed in ink lower right in unknown hand: G. Harding., In ink lower left in unknown hand: Original miniature., and George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853.
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French edition of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout the three volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were issued with the work
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., Many of the drawings have the sitter's name written below, and most are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see name authority record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de Mme. du Deffand avec la duchesse de Choiseul ... Paris : M. Lévy frères, 1866., and Extra-illustrated: plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778,, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,, Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Lévis-Mirepoix, Anne-Marguerite-Gabrielle de Beauvau-Craon, duchesse de, 1707-1791,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, Guerchy, Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de, 1715-1767,, Gleichen, Charles Henri, baron de, 1733-1807,, Dufort de Duras, Henriette Julie de, comtesse d'Egmont, 1696-1779,, Noailles, Marie-Anne-Françoise de, comtesse de la Marck, 1719-1793,, Choiseul, Etienne-François, duc de, 1719-1785,, Barthélemy, J.-J. 1716-1795, (Jean-Jacques),, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Boufflers, Amélie de, 1751-1794,, Bauffremont, Charles-Roger de, 1713-1795,, Aiguillon, Louise Félicité de Brehan-Plélo, duchesse de, 1726-1796,, Sénac de Meilhan, Gabriel, 1736-1803,, Brionne, Louise de Rohan, comtesse de, 1734-1815,, Mirepoix, Gaston Charles Pierre de Lévis, duc de, 1699-1757,, Mazarin, Louise-Jeanne de Durfort de Duras, duchesse de, 1735-1781,, Conzié, Louis-François-Marc-Hilaire de, 1732-1804,, Maine, Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du, 1676-1753,, and Grammont, Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de, 1730-1794,
A half-length portrait of Horace Walpole at middle age dressed in a purple jacket and vest with a ruffled shirt. His face is in three-quarter view as he gazes to his proper left. The top of a white feather quill is visible at the lower left. At some point the painting was cut down from an original three-quarter length preserved in a preliminary sketch by Ramsay now in the National Gallery of Scotland. The drawing shows Walpole seated at a table holding a quill pen. Only the top of the table is visible
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and It is uncertain if Walpole commissioned this portrait, but it did apparently belong to the Honorable Anne Seymour Damer, Walpole’s niece and executrix.