Lot 323: CHARLES BALTHAZAR JULIEN FEVRET SAINT-MEMIN (1770-1852)

PROFILE PORTRAIT OF MR. ROBERT OLIVER, A BALTIMORE MERCHANT

measurements
21 by 15 1/2 in.

alternate measurements
53.3 by 39.4cm

Retains the original églomisé glass mat.

black and white chalk on pink-tinted paper

PROVENANCE

Mrs. John Tyson
Nicholas Biddle Family, Andalusia

NOTE

There are two versions of this portrait of Mr. Robert Oliver listed in Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Portrait in America, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 365-365, no. 629a and 629b. No. 629b is the present example. Oliver's brother, John, was drawn by Saint-Memin and engraved.