CHARLES ROSENBERG, BRITISH, 1745 - 1844, A CONVERSATION PIECE OF GEORGE III, 1738 - 1820 With William Pitt The Younger, 1759 - 1806, and Charles James Fox, 1749 - 1806, the King, profile to the left, wearing uniform, coat with epaulette and decorated with chevrons, breast star of the Order of The Garter, a sword at his left hip, he holds a staff in his left hand and raises his fantail hat with his right; he faces Fox, who holds a wide-brimmed hat, his back to Pitt, who holds a cane and wide-brimmed hat, painted on flat glass in colour, held in a giltwood frame, the reverse with trade label ‘ROSENBERG Profile Painter to their Majesty’. (sight 16cm x 20cm, frame 23.5cm x 27.5cm) N.B. the present lot is an interesting addition to the known full length works by Rosenberg centred on a figure of George III. The rivalry between Pitt and Fox dominated Parliament for more than twenty years of George's reign