William Hoare Of Bath R.A. Pastel Portrait Of A Young Lady Circa.1750 Travel Provenance: with William Drummond

Provenance: with William Drummond

She was the only daughter of the Comédie Française actress Pierrette Hélène Claudine Pinet and although her legal father was the famous comic actor René Molé

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William Hoare Of Bath R.A. Pastel Portrait Of A Young Lady Circa.1750 Travel Provenance: with William DrummondWilliam Hoare of Bath 1707 1792. Portrait of a young lady, bust length, in a white dress and bonnet pastel 51. 2 x 36. 6cms. Provenance Christies 14 6 1983 Lot 56. Illustrated N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists page 246. Born in Eye Suffolk, Hoare came to London during the 1720s and in 1728 travelled with Giuseppe Grisoni to Italy where he studied under Fernandi in Rome alongside Pompeo Batoni. He settled in Bath in the late 1730s. Charging 5