Samuel Shelley

Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl Stroher (1919-2016)

Samuel Shelley

Whitechapel circa 1750 - 1808 London

Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1790

watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold fausse-montre frame, blue glass reverse with central hair reverse;

signed verso: S: Shelley. / Henrietta Str / Cov:t Garden

4.9 by 4.3 cm., 2⅛ by 1¾ in.