Trash to Treasure: Rare 18th-Century Sketch Unearthed in a New York Dumpster – WorthPoint Reveals Hidden Gem!
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Emma Hart (c. 1780s) by George Romney (english artist, lived 1734–1802). Later Emma, Lady Hamilton. Mistress of Lord Nelson. The favourite model and muse of portraitist George Romney.
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The last of several self-portraits by Romney, this work was described by his son, the Reverend John Romney, in the following terms (1830): <br/><br/>"In the winter of 1795 he painted a head of himself, which, though slight, and not entirely finished, being painted at once, shews uncommon power of execution; the likeness also, is strong, but there is a certain expression of languor that indicates the approach of disease, which had in fact already begun to assail his constitution
According to the 1929 Bache Collection catalogue, Martha, “daughter of Benjamin Rigden, a tradesman, of Faversham, Kent, married clandestinely, on March 20, 1773, Charles Frederick, great-great-grandson of Sir John Frederick, a ‘merchant of great opulence,’ and Lord Mayor of London in 1662
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