The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Online Sale

John Smart

Portrait of Lucy Anne Burr, later Mrs James Phillips (1804-1884), on her 5th birthday

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John Smart

London 1741-1811

Portrait of Lucy Anne Burr, later Mrs James Phillips (1804-1884), on her 5^th birthday

Pencil and grey wash on card, heightened with white, gilt-wood frame

signed lower left with the artist’s initials and dated 2 May 1809

82 mm. (high)

Sale, London, Sotheby’s, 4 July 1983, lot 205 (£1,100) bt Lavender;

With D.S. Lavender, South Molton Antiques, London;

By whom sold to the present owners, July 1983 (£1,325).

The only child of Lieutenant General Burr by his first wife, Lucy was born 2 May 1804 and married James Phillipps of Bryngwyn, Herefordshire. Smart painted several members of the Burr family including Lieutenant General Daniel burr, presumably Lucy’s father, in 1799.¹

^1.D. Foskett, John Smart, London 1964, p. 63

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