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Trades Index to Auction Catalogs

"Search an online index (1983–1999) of drawings and paintings of 18th- and early 19th-century objects found in Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs. The objects may be of particular interest to Colonial Williamsburg's tradespeople.

Title Catalog Date Catalog Name Photocopy No.
Portrait of a cleric, seated small full length, wearing black coat, breeches and waistcoat, holding a hat and a walking stick, with Roman ruins, possibly the Baths of Caracalla, beyond 2/9/1990 Christie's C 2-1990 #117
Portrait of Francis Burdett of Foremark, three-quarter length, wearing the blue coat and scarlet waistcoat of the Markeaton Hunt, holding his hat and riding crop, a landscape beyond 7/12/1990 Christie's C 7-1990 #60
Portrait of Grace Granville, Mrs. Thomas Foley, of Witley Court, and Stoke Edith 3/14/1990 Sotheby's S 3-1990 #50
Portrait of Sophia Dumergue, seated half length, in a pink dress, black shawl and white cap trimmed with ribbons and lace, holding a black and white cat on her lap 4/20/1990 Christie's C 4-1990 #32
Portrait of Elizabeth Parry, bust length, wearing a white dress with blue slashed sleeves 4/20/1990 Christie's C 4-1990 #26
Portrait of Mrs. Ralph Willet, half length, wearing a brown dress, with a black shawl, with a lace brimmed bonnet 2/9/1990 Christie's C 2-1990 #118
Portrait of Mrs. Garrick 3/14/1990 Sotheby's S 3-1990 #51
Portrait of Mrs. William Pigot, seated three-quarter length, in a white satin dress, holding a bouquet in a landscape 7/12/1990 Christie's C 7-1990 #41
Portrait of Miss Beaumont 4/9/1997 Sotheby's S 4-1997 #35A
A Market Girl 4/9/1997 Sotheby's S 4-1997 #111
Portrait of Mary Lawton (b.1700), nee Longueville, half-length, in a grey lace-trimmed dress and white bonnet holding a pill box. 6/10/1999 Christies's C 6-1999 #63
Portrait of Kitty Fisher. Three-quarter length, seated, wearing a blue dress, and holding a fan. 3/9/1988 Sotheby's S 3-1988 #48
Children of the Vaughn Family Gathered Around a Birds Nest. 7/11/1990 Sotheby's/British Paintings S 7-1990 #39
Portrait of a young Girl, three-quarter-length, seated, in a white dress, a King Charles spaniel on her lap, in an ornamental park, with a hill-top castle beyond. 11/15/1996 Christie's C 11-1996 #20
Portrait of the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire 5/16/1990 Sotheby's S 5-1990 #41
Portrait of Purnell Bransby Cooper, Aged 5. Half-length, wearing a white shirt and blue coat with pink lining and holding a bow. 11/14/1996 Sotheby's S 11-1996 #72
Portrait of Miss Craven. Half length, standing by a column, wearing a pink lace dress. 5/16/1990 Sotheby's S 5-1990 #44
Portrait of a Young Boy. Half length, standing, wearing a silk tunic. 9/18/1997 Sotheby's S 9-1997 #68
Sauciness; and Meekness 7/11/1990 Sotheby's/Drawings & Watercolours S 7-1990 #107
The Fisher Boy 7/11/1990 Sotheby's/Drawings & Watercolours S 7-1990 #106
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