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Cut Silhouette of Captain St Clair by Gapp
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Cut Silhouette of Captain St Clair by Gapp

19th century
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Born in Chichester in 1784, David Latimer St Clair was the third son of Colonel William St Clair and his wife Augusta Tinling. He joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1797, aged 13 on a ship commanded by his maternal uncle. In 1802 he was promoted to Lieutenant and saw action in the East Indies. A decade he captained his own ship and held that rank until his retirement from the Navy in 1847. He married his cousin Elizabeth Isabella Farhill in 1819; they did not have any children. St Clair died at Brighton in 1861 aged 77.

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The full-length cut silhouette shows St Clair wearing a top hat and holding a pair of gloves. It is backed inside the frame with the artist's trade label for J. Gapp who worked as a profilist from a booth on the Chain Pier at Brighton. A pencil inscription dates the silhouette to 1835.

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The silhouette has age-browning. It is set in its original ebonised frame with an ink inscription on the backing paper together with the sitter's newspaper obituary.

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Physical Dimensions
Height
30.5cm (12.01")
Width
17.5cm (6.89")
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Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 19th Century.

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Born in Chichester in 1784, David Latimer St Clair was the third son of Colonel William St Clair and his wife Augusta Tinling. He joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1797, aged 13 on a ship commanded by his maternal uncle. In 1802 he was promoted to Lieutenant and saw action in the East Indies. A decade he captained his own ship and held that rank until his retirement from the Navy in 1847. He married his cousin Elizabeth Isabella Farhill in 1819; they did not have any children. St Clair died at Brighton in 1861 aged 77.
fig 1. Cut Silhouette of Captain St Clair by Gapp
fig 1. Cut Silhouette of Captain St Clair by Gapp

The full-length cut silhouette shows St Clair wearing a top hat and holding a pair of gloves. It is backed inside the frame with the artist's trade label for J. Gapp who worked as a profilist from a booth on the Chain Pier at Brighton. A pencil inscription dates the silhouette to 1835.

The silhouette has age-browning.

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It is set in its original ebonised frame with an ink inscription on the backing paper together with the sitter's newspaper obituary.
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Height
30.5cm (12.01")
Width
17.5cm (6.89")
Date of Manufacture

Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 19th Century.

Reference Numbers
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SA1050751
Dealers Internal Ref
6498
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Small portraiture of character & historical interest

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