A RARE REVERSE-GLASS PAINTING OF 'SAPPHO' Circa 1810 Expertly painted depicting the ancient Greek poetess in profile gazing up to the left, her hair blown by the wind, clad in a loose flowing toga, a band around her left arm, framed. Overall 47.5cm (18 3/4in) wide x 60cm (23 3/4in) long. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 約1810年 繪希臘詩人沙芙像玻璃鏡畫 Published and Illustrated: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2011, no.117. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號117 For this subject, see T.Audric, Chinese reverse glass painting 1720–1820: An artistic meeting between China and the West, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, New York and Oxford, 2020, p.213, no.346. The picture is taken from a painting by Richard Westall (1765-1836), entitled Portrait of the artist's wife as Sappho. Westall was an English painter and illustrator and the drawing-master of the young Queen Victoria. See also a reverse glass painting of 'Venus and Cupid', copying in China an original drawing by Richard Westall, illustrated by S.Jenyns, Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II, London, 1965, pp.154-155. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com