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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 John Gallop, quarter length, in a blue coat and waistcoat; and portrait of Mary Gallop, quarter length, in a blue striped dress and flowers in her bonnet. 9/9/1999 Christie's C 9-1999 #19
The Byam Family: Group portrait of Mr. And Mrs. George Byam and their eldest daughter Selina, full-length, in a wooded landscape. 6/10/1999 Christie's C 6-1999 #9
Group Portrait of the Bankes Family in a Garden; Mr. Bankes, in a brown coat and breeches with a green waistcoat with gold frogging, leaning on a walking cane; Mrs. Bankes seated in a blue and white satin dress with a black lace fichu and a white lace cap 4/15/1994 Christie's C 4-1994 #10
Portrait of Henry Knight of Tythegston (1738-1772) with his three children, Henry, Robert and Ethelreda all full length. 6/8/1999 Sotheby's S 3-1999 #14
Portrait of Lady Williams Wynn with her three children full length, reclining on a divan, wearing oriental robes, with her children playing beside her, and a landscape beyond. 6/9/1998 Sotheby's S 6-1998 #8
Portrait of Miss Hawkins. Three quarter length, standing wearing a pink dress and a lace cap decorated with sprigs of flowers, holding a basket of fruit, to the left a sampler embroidered with the alphabet. 3/9/1988 Sotheby's S 3-1988 #42
Portrait of a young Lady as a Shepherdess, full length, wearing a grey satin dress, with blue bows and a straw hat, with a lamb in the landscape. 7/17/1992 Christie's C 7-1992 #7
Portraits of Mr. Samuel Allpress; and his wife both half length, he wearing a green coat and holding a hat, she seated at a table wearing a pink dress. 11/25/1998 Sotheby's S 11-1998 #46
The Macclesfield Family Portrait 7/15/1998 Sotheby's S 7-1998 #46
Portraits of King George III, and of Queen Charlotte. Both three-quarter length, he wearing a red coat with gold brocade and the Order of the Garter, she wearing a pink satin dress edged with lace and a black lace shawl holding a fan. 11/13/1996 Sotheby's S 11-1996 #57
Portrait of Colonel Henry Monch Mason, Chief Engineer of Ireland (d. 1795), three quarter length, standing, wearing uniform, resting his arm against a plinth. 11/25/1998 Sotheby's S 11-1998 #28
Portrait of Elizabeth Cochrane. Half length, wearing a blue dress with a white lace shawl 4/3/1996 Sotheby's S 4-1996 #65
Portrait of Elizabeth Moore. Half length, wearing a white dress embroidered with gold 4/3/1996 Sotheby's S 4-1996 #58
Portrait of Sarah Cotes, the artist's wife half length, wearing a pink and yellow striped dress trimmed with bows and lace, a black stole, and a lace bonnet with pink ribbons, a dog beside her. 11/25/1998 Sotheby's S 11-1998 #30
Portrait of Miss Earle half length, wearing a blue dress with lace bodice and sleeves, a sewing basket on the table in front of her. 11/25/1998 Sotheby's S 11-1998 #31
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Noel (1731-1801). Full length, standing by a drawing table, wearing a white dress and sketching flowers. 11/10/1993 Sotheby's S 11-1993 #53
Portrait of a Lady, quarter-length, in a white dress with jewelled collarette and rose corsage. 3/11/1999 Christie's C 3-1999 #50
Portrait of Sarah Lawton (d.1770), nee Offley, half-length, in a pink and white dress with white bonnet with a blue ribbon. 6/10/1999 Christie's C 6-1999 #65
Portrait of Dorothea Scrivener half-length, wearing a blue dress. 3/31/1999 Sotheby's S 3-1999 #83
Portrait of Sarah Paige, later Mrs. Tobias Rustar, half length, wearing a white dress trimmed with yellow bows, a lace shawl, and with flowers in her hair. 11/17/1989 Christie's C 11-1989 #53
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