Bonhams 1793 : After Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA, late 18th Century Mary Helen Dashwood (née Graham) (1763-1796), seated before a red curtain with her first-born child, Henry George Mayne Dashwood (1782-1803): she, wearing black dress, white fichu and frilled cuff, her hair upswept and dressed with a blue bandeau; he, wearing white dress and stockings

Mary Helen Dashwood (née Graham) (1763-1796), seated before a red curtain with her first-born child, Henry George Mayne Dashwood (1782-1803): she, wearing black dress, white fichu and frilled cuff, her hair upswept and dressed with a blue bandeau; he, wearing white dress and stockings.
Ormolu frame with laurel leaf border, foliate and ribbon cresting.
Rectangular, 125mm (4 15/16in) high
Provenance: Christie's, 10 July 1990, lot 66

Sold for £780 inc. premium

Footnotes

The present lot is after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted in 1784 and published as mezzotint by Samuel Williams Reynolds in 1833.

Mary Helen Graham married Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, 3rd Bt (17451828) on 17th July 1780. Her husband was MP for Wigtown Burghs between 1775 and 1780. In 1775 his debts had amounted to £25,000 which his father had to pay. After he came into his inheritance, Dashwood sold most of the family estate to pay further debts. He held the (unpaid) appointment of Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from March 1783 until his death.

Category: Fine Art / Portrait Miniatures

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