Lot 107: John Smart, junior (British, 1776-1809) Princess Louise Adelaide de Bourbon (1757-1824) wearing black dress with white tucker and pointed collar, her brown hair upswept beneath a white cap tied under her chin

Princess Louise Adelaide de Bourbon (1757-1824) wearing black dress with white tucker and pointed collar, her brown hair upswept beneath a white cap tied under her chin.
Signed on the obverse and dated J.S.J./ 1802, gilt-metal frame with blue enamel border.
Oval, 55mm (2 3/16in) high

Princess Louise Adelaide, known throughout her life as 'Mademoiselle Condé', was the second daughter and youngest child of Prince Louis of Condé, the head of a cadet branch of the Bourbon dynasty. Her nephew, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d'Enghien, was executed at Vincennes on the orders of Napoleon in 1804 and the family line became extinct with him. According to a paper label on the reverse, the present lot was painted whilst the princess was in exile in London in 1802. John Smart junior certainly painted the sitter's father as this portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1808 (no.827), see D. Foskett, John Smart, the Man and his Miniatures, 1964, p.59.