• Title
  [Robert Scott, 1820 - watercolour on ivory miniature / attributed to Miss Sharpe]
• Creator
  Misses Sharpe
• Call number
  MIN 354
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1820
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  80869
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - on ivory miniature in ebonised wooden frame with an oval brass slip and a hanger that is fixed at top centre of wooden frame - 7.3 x 5.8 cm (oval, sight) in a wooden frame 16 x 14.4 cm
  
• Collection history
  This Scott family miniature, and four others (MINs 352, 353, 355 & 356), were acquired from a presumed descendant of Rose Scott (provenance has not been traced). On the reverse of MIN 355 is an exhibition label, [National Art Gallery] Art Loan Exhibition, 1897, in which Miss Rose Scott is said to be the owner of five miniatures displayed in this exhibition - no's. 533-537.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  The identity of the sitter of this portrait may be Robert Scott as suggested by the provenance of the miniature and by the young man's age i.e. 21 in 1820. It is also possible that the sitter is one of Robert's brothers - Alexander Walker (b.1800), Helenus (b.1802), David (b.1804) or his youngest brother Patrick
  Digital order no:a3248001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Note on backing in pencil 'Fixed by H .. S W Lynton 2/2/08. Robert Scott. Painted by Sharpe'
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to the Misses Sharpes : miniature was exhibited by Rose Scott in the National Art Gallery Loan Exhibition of 1897 when it was said to be by "Miss Sharpe, 1820" ML ref. 042/P84. Two Miss Sharpes - Eliza (1796-1874) and Mary Anne (1802-1867) - were exhibiting in 1820 cf. Daphne Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters vol. 1, 1972, p.501-502 GRL ref.EQ 757.7/FOS
• Date note
  
  Dated from National Art Gallery of NSW Loan Exhibition, 1897, lots 533, 534, 536 & 537) ML ref. 042/P84
• Name
  Scott, Robert, 1799?-1844
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  portraits
  

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