FRANCIS SYKES
(1715-1771)Portrait miniature of a lady, wearing a white dress, and a white surcoat with a yellow border, her hair worn up and curled with a purple ribbon
1765
Watercolour on ivory
Signed and dated ‘F. Sykes / 1765’ (lower left)
Oval, 1 3/8 in (36mm) high
Gilt metal frame with woven hair reverse
SOLD
The influence of the work of Zincke is evident in this miniature, the sitter of which has not been identified. Painted in 1765, when Sykes was working in London, the sitter is also likely to have been based here. It was in this period that Sykes was also exhibiting at the Society of Artists. The lady wears an elegant dress, and her hair accessories are typical of the period. Only a few years after this miniature was painted, Sykes would die in Yarnmouth.
1 See article: Francis Sykes and His Family, 22 November 2015, https://neiljeffares.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/francis-sykes-and-his-family/.
2 Accession number: LOAN:GILBERT.274-2008
3 Collection number: RCIN 4733
With D. S. Lavender Antiques, 1994;
Christie’s, London, A Life’s Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot (Volume 1), 20 November 2013, lot 115.
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