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263 - ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN OPIE (BRITISH 1761-1807)
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£800 - 1,200 (€950 - 1,500)Sale fees
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN OPIE (BRITISH 1761-1807) PORTRAIT OF PLEASANCE, LADY SMITH (1773-1877) IN THE GUISE OF A FORTUNE TELLER Oil on canvas 76.5 x 63.5cm (30 x 25in.) Provenance: Possibly Henry Lea-Smith, 12th Baron Dudley (d. 1936) Sybil Augusta Smith, his wife and the daughter of The Rev. Hon. Henry W. Coventry, grandson of 7th Earl of Coventry By descent to the present owner A portrait of Lady Smith is listed in John Jope Rogers' Opie and His Works (1878) as being in the collection of the Earl of Coventry in 1817.
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