Thomas Langdon, Miss Burgoyne, ca. 1790

Christopher John Walter Blackett (1900–1971), Wylam Hall, Northumberland, by 1968;

Purchased from his sale, Miniatures, Enamels, Jewellery, Russian and other Objects of Vertu, Christie’s, London, July 9, 1968, lot 74, as Miss Burgoyne, by Waterfield [1];

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1982;

Sold at their sale, Silhouettes and Fine Portrait Miniatures, Sotheby’s, London, March 15, 1982, lot 83, as by T. (Thomas?) Langdon, Miss Burgoyne [2];

Current location unknown.

Notes

[1] “Another Miss Burgoyne, by T. Langdon, full face, wearing a white dress with blue sash and blur ribbon upon her mob cap on her dark hair—oval, 2 1/4 in. (55 mm.) high—in gilt mount.” Portraits of the sitter’s sister and parents were included in the sale; see lot 72, Miss Elizabeth Burgoyne, Montagu Burgoyne, and lot 73, Miss Burgoyne. According to an attached price list, lot 74 sold for 100 guineas. According to genealogical records, the sitter may depict Frances Elizabeth Burgoyne, born to Montagu and Elizabeth on October 6, 1783; see England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975, FHL film number: 580905, 580906, digitized on Ancestrylibary.com.

[2] “Miss Burgoyne, with dark hair falling to her shoulders and wearing a frilled white cap trimmed with a blue ribbon and a white dress with a blue sash, the sleeves also bound with matching ribbons, cloud and sky background, gilt-metal mount, oval 2 3/16 in.; 5.6 cm. The Misses Burgoyne were probably the daughters of Montagu Burgoyne (1750–1836) and his wife Elizabeth, née Harvey. Four miniatures of the Burgoyne family, including those of the sisters, were sold by Christie’s, 9th July, 1968.” The annotated catalogue lists “820” below the lot description.

T. Langdon, Mrs. Montagu Burgoyne, ca. 1790, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. (5.7 x 4.4 cm), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, P.76-1968.

Daphne Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters (New York: Praeger, 1972), no. 508, pl. 199, (repro.), as Miss Burgoyne

Daphne Foskett, Collecting Miniatures (Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 1979), 260 (repro.), as Miss Burgoyne.

Silhouettes and Fine Portrait Miniatures (London: Sotheby’s, March 15, 1982), 22, as Miss Burgoyne.