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Wigs on the Green has dated these Antique Silhouette Portraits to the Regency era.
The uniformed father is painted in black with gum arabic and gold highlights and, unlike the others, is without a bust-line termination. The parents have matching drum and sword hangers.
The silhouettes are each backed with the original cream silk packed behind with old cotton wool padding; they reside in their original papier-mâché frames. Two profiles are then backed with old playing cards, the other has inside a cut-down hand-written appointment card bearing the name E Turner dated 1814.
Philip Hutchins Rogers was born and educated in Plymouth. He is mostly known for his landscape views of the Plymouth area which he exhibited. He painted very few silhouettes suggesting it may have been an artform used solely to paint family and friends during the early 1800s.
Provenance: Acquired for the Christie Collection in February 1944
Literature: McKechnie, British Silhouette Artists and their Work, illus. pp.114 & 598
Wigs on the Green has dated these Antique Silhouette Portraits to the Regency era.
Small portraiture of character & historical interest
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Rare Family Group of Silhouettes on Glass by Hutchins
