Lot 123: Charles Hayter (British, 1761-1835)

A pair of portraits of Capt. James Bradshaw R.N. and his wife Eliza (née Blagrove): he, wearing Naval uniform; she, wearing dress with blue bodice, white sleeves and lace trim, red shawl, coral necklace, pearls in her hair and portrait miniature of her husband on a gold chain; sold together with a portrait of her mother Ann, wearing white dress, red shawl and white bonnet with veil
all signed on the reverse and dated Painted by Chas Hayter/ 60 Wells Street/ Oxd St/ London/ May 1816; painted by Chas Hayter/ May 1816/ London; and Mrs Blagrove of/ Ankerwycke 1816/ by Ch Hayter, rectangular gilded compostion frames
Oval, 74mm. (2 7/8ins.) high (3)

Ann was married to John Blagrove of Cardiff Hall, Jamaica; Titchfield, Hants; and Ankerwycke, Berks. Their daughter Eliza married James Bradshaw R.N.
The present lot shows an interesting device favoured by Hayter of linking a 'pair' of portraits by including an image of one of the miniatures within the other. For a pair of portraits of a mother with her daughters and her son by Hayter, where the son holds the other miniature, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, cf. Katherine Coombs; The Portrait Miniature in England, London, 1998, p.113.