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* Kirk (John, 1724-1776). Portrait of miniaturist John Smart, plaster cameo portrait, oval head & shoulders portrait, profile to right, of a bewigged young gentleman, signed lower left, 27 x 20mm (1 x .75ins)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Collection of Arthur Jaffé OBE (1880–1954), and thence by descent. International lawyer Arthur Jaffé was an eminent scholar and collector of miniature paintings. He was an authority on John Smart, and spent many years researching the miniaturist, with the intention of writing a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s works. Although he died before the task could be completed, the body of work he had produced formed the basis of Daphne Foskett’s book, John Smart. The Man and his Miniatures, published in 1964. John Kirk is known primarily as a medallist and gem-engraver, who produced a large number of medals from around 1740 until his death. In 1762/3 he received premiums from the Society of Artists and in 1773 and 1775/6 he exhibited medals of the royal family and others. He also produced medals commemorating the victories of the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War, as well as others for royalty, politicians and civic associations. Daphne Foskett records that, in 1777, medals bearing the portrait of renowned miniature painter John Smart, modelled by Joachim Smith and cut by John Kirk, were struck in silver, silver alloy and bronze. She suggests that these were likely produced to celebrate Smart's appointment as Vice-President of the Incorporated Society of Artists.
* Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham. Oval silver medal, 1618, two embossed silver sheets (or clichés) joined at the rim, with half-length bust of Nicholas Wadham, facing slightly to the right, with ruff collar over plain cloak, and the words WHEN CHRIST WHO IS OVR LIFE SHAL APPEARE, to reverse, a half-length bust of Dorothy Wadham, turning slightly to the left, wearing damask gown, high ruff collar and broad-rimmed hat, and the words WE SHAL APPEARE WITH HIM IN GLORY, with four death's heads to the outer wreath-decorated border, 55 x 47 mm (2.2 x 1.9 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESMedallic Illustrations of the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II, 73 (page 220). Thought to have been issued on the death of Dorothy Wadham (1534-1618), daughter of Sir William Petre, principal Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth. Her husband Nicholas (1532-1609), a Somerset landowner, left funds in his will for the founding of what became Wadham College, Oxford. The first stone of the college was laid on 31st July 1610, with the first students being received in 1613.
* Fletcher (William Teulon Blandford, 1858-1936). Village Gossips, oil on canvas, depicting a fair-haired young peasant girl leaning on a well conversing with a seated woman in a mob cap and shawl engaged in weaving reeds, and a dark-haired young woman seated beside, in a cobbled flower garden against a row of tall gabled red brick cottages with leaded windows and high chimneys, indistinctly signed lower right, 40.8 x 30.8cm (16 x 12ins), framed, with title/attribution plaqueQty: (1)NOTESBlandford Fletcher was one of the first artists to work in Newlyn in the early 1880s, although his sojourn there was brief. He attended the South Kensington School of Art between the ages of 16 and 20, where he won the Silver Medal and the Queen's prize, going on to study at Verlat's Academie Royale in Antwerp. He exhibited at many London and regional galleries from 1879, including the Royal Academy.
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