Sir George Hayter

SIR GEORGE HAYTER (BRITISH, 1792-1871) Three albums of drawings and watercolours, in brown morrocco leather bindings with gilt dates to the spine: the first an album of 118 pages, containing 440 sketches with subjects including: views of Salisbury, and Winchester; numerous portraits, including of the artist's father; studies of horses; battle scenes; and a study of Salvator Mundi; the second an album of 64 pages, containing 124 sketches with subjects including: classical figure studies and numerous portraits; studies for the portraits of Caroline, Fifth Duchess of Richmond with the Earl of March , The Hon. Caroline Norton ; Lady Anne Keppel, Countess of Leicester and her son ; and views of Woburn Park; the third an album of 80 pages, containing 206 sketches with subjects including: landscape studies, figure studies, anatomical drawings and studies for the portraits of Elizabeth, Lady Stuart de Rothesay and her daughters ; Ezra the Prophet ; Mrs Horace Beckford and her family ; The Countess of Lichfield with Viscount Anson and Lady Harriet Anson ; The Ladies Jane, Caroline and Alice Gordon ; and The Wife and Children of Sir John Malcolm. i) 104 signed, 100 variously inscribed, 28 numbered and 51 variously dated from 1799 to 1812 ii) 31 signed, 26 variously inscribed and 17 variously dated from 1822 to 1824 iii) 29 signed, 64 variously inscribed, 32 variously dated from 1826 to 1830 i) 180 pencil, 35 pencil and watercolour, 72 pencil, pen and ink, and 153 pencil, pen and ink and wash, all on paper ii) 9 pencil, 30 black pencil heightened with white, 66 pen and ink, and 12 pencil, pen and ink, 3 pen ink and wash, 4 charcoal, all on paper iii) 75 pencil, 16 pencil, pen and ink, 45 pen and ink, 30 charcoal (some heightened with white pencil), 4 pencil and charcoal, 6 pen and ink with wash, 8 watercolour, 5 watercolour, brown wash and pen and ink, 6 white, b