George Chinnery (1774-1852) Captain Christopher Biden seated, small three-quarter length with his dog Hector oil on canvas 11 ½ x 9 ½in. (29.2 x 24.1cm.) (2)in a Chinese carved wood frame [ With: ] [BIDEN, Christopher, Captain (1789-1858)]. Commonplace book of Harriott Biden, [Madras, c.1855-c.1858]. c.151 text pages, 250 x 200mm, containing transcriptions of letters and documents received and sent by Captain Christopher Biden and others in the hand of his wife, as well as newspaper cuttings, near all relating to his role as Master Attendant and Marine Storekeeper at Madras, but also including a transcribed poem, ‘To Hector’, an ode to the same faithful dog of Biden’s represented in the present portrait [a typed card 'Collection of Capt. Christopher Biden / Commonplace Book' loosely inserted describes the contents including 'a poem written by a fellow officer at sea to "Hector", Capt. Biden's dog (with him in Chinery (sic) portrait)] ...' Original half-cloth binding with marbled boards. Provenance Anon.(?) sale, Phillips, Bath, 27 May 1996, lot 359 (the commonplace book, and possibly the portrait).
George Chinnery (1774-1852) Captain Christopher Biden seated, small three-quarter length with his dog Hector oil on canvas 11 ½ x 9 ½in. (29.2 x 24.1cm.) (2)in a Chinese carved wood frame [ With: ] [BIDEN, Christopher, Captain (1789-1858)]. Commonplace book of Harriott Biden, [Madras, c.1855-c.1858]. c.151 text pages, 250 x 200mm, containing transcriptions of letters and documents received and sent by Captain Christopher Biden and others in the hand of his wife, as well as newspaper cuttings, near all relating to his role as Master Attendant and Marine Storekeeper at Madras, but also including a transcribed poem, ‘To Hector’, an ode to the same faithful dog of Biden’s represented in the present portrait [a typed card 'Collection of Capt. Christopher Biden / Commonplace Book' loosely inserted describes the contents including 'a poem written by a fellow officer at sea to "Hector", Capt. Biden's dog (with him in Chinery (sic) portrait)] ...' Original half-cloth binding with marbled boards. Provenance Anon.(?) sale, Phillips, Bath, 27 May 1996, lot 359 (the commonplace book, and possibly the portrait).
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