A. HELANT (flourished circa 1792)

Ryk Le Sueur, facing right in green coat with white muslin jabot, short powdered wig with black wig-bag

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A. HELANT (flourished circa 1792)
Ryk Le Sueur, facing right in green coat with white muslin jabot, short powdered wig with black wig-bag
signed 'helant px' (lower right)
oval, 1 3/16in. (31mm.) high, silver-gilt clasp frame with rose-cut diamond border
This miniature is illustrated in colour on the back of the catalogue cover, lower left.

Lot Essay

Ryk Le Sueur was baptised on 16 August 1767, the youngest son of Jacobus Johannes Le Sueur, a bailiff of Stellenbosch and Groot Drakenstein near Capetown. Ryk was a lawyer in Capetown, married on 11 March 1792 Helena Maria Geertruida Karnspek and died in 1822.
We are grateful to Drs. Karen Schaffers-Bodenhausen, Director of the Iconographisch Bureau, The Hague, for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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