Stanley, C. (McKechnie Section 6)

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On a press notice dating from c. 1812-15 Stanley offers portrait miniatures on ivory at five guineas. On another press notice, probably dating from c. 1818-20, he offers profile miniatures, presumably painted in colour on card, and 'black and white' work.

Stanley is not listed by Foskett, and I have seen no work by him in colour. Graves records a portrait sent in to the Royal Academy in 1848 by C. W. Stanley, who may have been the profilist. There is, however, in the John Jonson collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, an example of (presumably) Stanley's 'black and white' work. This is a profile of a Miss Elizabeth Ward, painted in c. 1820 in monochrome on card and showing the sitter's features in full. The profile is shown in a central oval, with an unusual surround of embossed paper (of the type seen on early Victorian Valentine cards) which may have been added in c. 1860.

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