Mary Gardiner, Harriet Gardiner and Louisa Gardiner

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These drawings [NPG 883(1-21)] are all apparently studies for miniatures, which explains their small scale, the largest (Codrington) being 17.5 x 13 (6 7/8 x 5 1/8) and most much smaller. They are drawn in pencil, some strengthened with pen and ink and colour wash, two or three quite elaborately. They were probably bought at the Hayter sale, Christie's 20 April 1871, where many of his drawings were sold in large uncatalogued lots.
They are all contained in a drawer fitting into a box bound, on acquisition in 1891, to resemble a red leather book titled on the spine: ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by Sir George Hayter/NPG.

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Three young women seated three-quarter-length under a tree and crimson backcloth, the mount inscribed with their names in pencil. This is presumably a study for Hayter's miniature exhibited Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, South Kensington Museum, June 1865 (2901), dated 1812 and lent by T. G. Gardiner. Another study in pencil and India ink is in British Museum (Laurence Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists ... in the British Museum, II, p 284).

Provenanceback to top

A. D. Hogarth & Sons and bought from them 1891.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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