Lot 83: Joseph Saunders (British, active 1772-1811)

Jane Francis Webber (1770-1824), seated before red drapery and a landscape vista, wearing white dress and shawl draped about her shoulders, her hair worn à la conseilleur and dressed with a pale yellow bandeau. The reverse inscribed JANE FRANCIS WEBBER/ wife of Wm. Webber Esqu/ eldest Daughter of Ralph/ Suistanley Wood Esqu of/ Pierpoint Lodge near Farnham./ Surrey/ painted [by Josp. Saunders/ no 33 Great Maddox St, Hanover Sq/ when she was sixteen years of age/ just after her marriage in 1786/ she died Nov. 11th 1824/ aged 54./ Copied from a card in the back of the/ temporary frame in which miniature/ was in 1933 ** and in [ ]/ being taken from the label/ on wooden backing, gold frame. Oval, 78mm (3 1/16in) high