Lot 107: PETER EDWARD STROELY (1768-1826)

A mother holding her child to her breast; the mother facing right in striped cream silk dress with lace-bordered white underslip, long lace-bordered white scarf tied in her long curling hair, red cashmere stole with white embroidered border around her waist and enveloping her child in white dress, brown curling hair; foliate background signed and dated 'Stroely 1793' (mid-left) oval, 31/4 in. (83 mm.) high, silver frame with glazed silk reverse.