Sketchbook.

£2,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Album comprising 41 artworks, the majority in pencil, a few watercolours, most by Louisa Leeds (later Oglander), a few by her brother Augustus F. Leeds, comprising: 18 portraits, the majority delicately rendered in pencil and signed by Louisa Leeds, the portraits heightened with watercolour, particularly pink to give a life-like blush to the sitters; 2 group portraits (of portrait sitters at cards); 3 group scenes with a grander scope: one of a horse race and its bystanders (signed by Louisa Leeds); one panorama of promenading men and women; and the third, a double-page drawing room scene, featuring many of the persons who appear in Leeds’ individual portraits. 8 illustrations of places, including: Sintra, Belem Castle (in Lisbon), and various views of Parnham House (a seat of the Oglander family) and its environs. 4 illustrations of ships and maritime scenes, including “Lisbon H.M.S. Malabar”, and “Sir Henry Oglander’s Firefly built about 1854”. 6 illustrations of miscellaneous subjects including a large pencil drawing depicting a family of brigands, a child praying, and a lovers’ tryst by a moonlit casement. Portraits of note: Louisa Leeds [of herself]; A. F. Leeds [her brother]; “Captain Harry Keppel R. N. 1840” [Henry Keppel (1809-1904), later Admiral of the Fleet]; and his wife, “the Honble Mrs Henry Keppel”; Sir William Montague [rear-Admiral and brother-in-law of Louisa Leeds]; a later, more candid, pen and ink portrait of “Lady M” [likely Sir William Montague’s wife,

• Year: 1846

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