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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 Miss Hill. Half length, seated in a landscape, wearing a blue dress, holding a book. 11/8/1995 Sotheby's S 11-1995 #57
Portrait of Miss Denison, Wife of Jonathan Midgeley of Beverley, Yorkshire. Three-quarter length, seated, wearing a white dress with blue robes, holding roses in her right hand, a landscape beyond. 4/12/1995 Sotheby's S 4-1995 #44
Portrait of Master William Robert Broughton. Full length, standing, wearing naval uniform with his sword and hat beside him and his dog at his feet, a seascape beyond. 7/12/1995 Sotheby's S 7-1995 #43
Portrait of John Smith (1748-1811) of Heath Hall, Yorkshire. Three-quarter length, standing in a landscape, wearing a brown coat with a brocade waistcoat, holding his tricorn hat, gloves and cane in his hand. 7/12/1995 Sotheby's S 7-1995 #38
Portrait of Governor Henry Hamilton. Three-quarter length, seated, wearing a blue coat and red lapels, a landscape beyond. 11/8/1995 Sotheby's S 11-1995 #53
Portrait of a Lady. Three-quarter length, standing, wearing a white dress, and holding a basket of flowers 7/14/1993 Sotheby's S 7-1993 #50
A group portrait of the children of the Governor of Honduras, with two girls seated at a spinet, both in pink frocks and pearl trimmed lace headdresses, and a little boy, leaning on a chair, in a brown jacket, by a draped curtain, in an interior 11/22/1985 Christie's C 11-1985 #125
Portrait of Mrs. Bracebridge and her daughter Mary, the former seated full length in a pink satin dress with a brown overdress, holding a book in her right hand, the latter standing full length in a white dress with a red sash and red shoes, in a wooded.. 11/22/1985 Christie's C 11-1985 #132
Portrait of the Vernon children, the little girl standing full length in a white dress tied with a blue sash, holding a doll, the little boy in a red jacket and breeches, a white shirt and dark green hat, holding a gun, with a dog beside them, in a wooded 11/22/1985 Christie's C 11-1985 #133
Portrait of William Stafford, seated three-quarter length, in a brown jacket with gold frogging, brown breeches, a white shirt with elaborat collar and cuffs, and a red cloak, holding a book, by a green, draped curtain 11/22/1985 Christie's C 11-1985 #116
Portrait of a Gentleman standing in a landscape against a bank, weaing a red coat, a riding crop in his hand, hid horse beside him and a postchaise in the distance 11/14/1991 Sotheby's S 11-1991 #67
Portrait of a lady, thought to be Elizabeth, Dutchess of Beaufort, seated full length, in a white satin dress and blue stole, holding flowers, in a rocky wooden landscape 7/19/1991 Christie's C 7-1991 #76
Portrait of Elizaberh Burdett, half length, with pearl earrings and necklace, wearing a gold decollete dress embroidered with flowers, her waist tied with a sash below a turquoise gown trimmed with ermine 7/19/1991 Christie's C 7-1991 #97
Portrait of Harriet, Viscountess Tracey, three-quarter length, standing, wearing a blue dress 11/13/1991 Sotheby's S 11-1991 #51
Portrair of Anne, Countess of Winterton, wearing a pink dress and black shawl, with flowers in her hair at her bosom 11/20/1992 Christie's C 11-1992 #11
Portrait of Mrs. Boller, half length in a pink dress 11/20/1992 Christie's C 11-1992 #15
Portrait of Sarah, Countess of Kinnoull (1760-1837), three-quarter length, standing in a landscape, wearing a yellow dress 11/13/1991 Sotheby's S 11-1991 #49
Portrait of Mary Corrance, three-quarter length, wearing a blue dress, a landscape beyond 11/21/1984 Sotheby's S 11-1984 #31
Portrait of Samuel Crompton and of his wife Mrs. Crompton, both half length, he wearing a red coat and holding a letter, she wearing a red silk dress with a white shawl a pair oil on canvas, she in a painted cartouche 4/8/1998 Sotheby's S 4-1998 #113
Portrait of Gentleman and His Wife and Daughter 4/9/1997 Sotheby's S 4-1997 #41
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