Lot Essay
This talented artist is mentioned in Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin's list of his pupils (Carnet vert, private collection, Paris) for the year 1819: 'M de Verquelle commencé le 3 août a payé d'avance 36'.
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A young Gentleman, facing right in brown coat with white waistcoat and knotted cravat, red-lined blue cloak, curly centre-parted fair hair and sideburns; cloudy sky background
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MONSIEUR DE VERQUELLE (fl. c. 1819-1826)
A young Gentleman, facing right in brown coat with white waistcoat and knotted cravat, red-lined blue cloak, curly centre-parted fair hair and sideburns; cloudy sky background
signed and dated 'Verquelle. 1819.' (lower right)
36 in. (77 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount within a circular ebonized wood frame
A young Gentleman, facing right in brown coat with white waistcoat and knotted cravat, red-lined blue cloak, curly centre-parted fair hair and sideburns; cloudy sky background
signed and dated 'Verquelle. 1819.' (lower right)
36 in. (77 mm.) diam., gilt-metal mount within a circular ebonized wood frame