3-078-170 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Daughters of the first Lord North Wick, painted by Andrew Plimer, 1890. 'The valuable collection of miniature portraits, and other works of art, belonging to Mr. Edward Joseph, offered for sale by Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods, on Tuesday, June 10, and three following days, comprises some of the most interesting works of Richard Cosway, R.A., the most elegant miniature painter of the last century. He was born in 1711, at Tiverton, in Devonshire, gained high fashionable celebrity in London, married a lady of great talents, accomplishments, and personal charms, also an artist, and died in 1821. We are permitted by Mr. Joseph to copy several of the many portraits, mostly on ivory, in this collection...The group of three young ladies, the Hon. Ann, Harriet, and Elizabeth Rushout, daughters of the first Lord Northwick, was painted by Andrew Plimer, a contemporary of Cosway. Among the other articles in the sale are the curious pieces of old silver which were a "treasure trove" in the draining of Whittlesea Mere'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.