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• Lot n° 106 George Romney,  British 1734-1802-  Sketch of Henrietta, Countess of Warwick, seated with her arm outstretched;  pen and black ink on laid paper, bears artist's studio stamp numbered '53' in pencil verso, bears various later pencil inscriptions to card mount, 10.1 x 9.5 cm. (unframed / mounted) Provenance:  Found by the present owner in a dumpster in Hudson, New York, in 2024.  Note:  Romney's finished portrait of the Countess of Warwick with her children, painted in 1787-89, is now in the Frick Collection in New York [no.1908.1.107]. The artist was known to have had many sitters over his artistic career (over 10,000 appointments are recorded with sitters in his diaries). He continuously experimented with compositions, creating countless preparatory drawings, sometimes including them in his finished compositions, but mostly experimenting for his own reference and pleasure. His sketches give a wonderful insight into his drawing technique where he is uninhibited by the dictates of eighteenth-century aesthetics. The present pen and ink drawing is rapidly executed with fluent lines.  The inscription to the inside of the mount reads 'Sketch for Henrietta Countess of Warwick, born 1760, married as his 2nd wife, George 2nd Earl of Warwick in 1776, died 20 April 1838. She sat to Romney in 1777, 1782 and 1784...'