John Russell RA (Guildford 1745-1806 Hull)
Portrait of Laura Glover, later Mrs Vyner, in a white dress and black hat
inscribed 'Laura Glover' (on verso)
pastel on paper, laid down on panel, oval
58.9 x 42.5cm (23 3/16 x 16 3/4in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
By descent to the sitter's nephew, Robert Thomas Vyner (b. 1858), Armidale, New South Wales
Sale, Christie's, London, 28-29 July 1926, lot 139 (bt. Parsons, 60gns)
Private Collection, France
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 January 1982, lot 117
With Martyn Gregory, London, by 1987
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 17 November 1988, lot 50
Sale, Christie's, London, 2 June 1996, lot 10, where acquired by the parents of the present owner


Literature
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London, 2006, p. 453
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, online, J.64.2874, ill.