• Title
  [Helenus Scott junior, 1820 - watercolour on ivory miniature / attributed to Miss Sharpe]
• Creator
  Misses Sharpe
• Call number
  MIN 355
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1820
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  80871
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - on ivory miniature in ebonised wooden frame with an oval brass slip and a hanger 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, 354 & 356), were acquired from a presumed descendant of Rose Scott (provenance has not been traced). On the reverse of this miniature 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
  
  Possibly Helenus Scott (b. 1802) - identity suggested by age of sitter ie. 18 in 1820 -- but could be his brothers Alexander Walker (b.1800), Robert (b.1799), David (b.1804) or his youngest brother Patrick
• 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, Helenus, 1802-1879
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  miniatures
  portraits
  

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