Lot Essay
Williamson/Engleheart (loc. cit.) record that Miss Deffell and Miss A. Deffell (sic) sat to Engleheart in 1795.
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Miss Delsel, facing right in white dress with blue buttons and white underdress with large frilled collar, yellow-lined blue and white striped surcoat, pearl necklace hanging at corsage, coral and gold necklace, white bandeau in her long powdered curling hair
Details
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)
Miss Delsel, facing right in white dress with blue buttons and white underdress with large frilled collar, yellow-lined blue and white striped surcoat, pearl necklace hanging at corsage, coral and gold necklace, white bandeau in her long powdered curling hair
oval, 26 in. (62 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with old mine-cut diamond and foiled emerald border, fitted red leather case
Miss Delsel, facing right in white dress with blue buttons and white underdress with large frilled collar, yellow-lined blue and white striped surcoat, pearl necklace hanging at corsage, coral and gold necklace, white bandeau in her long powdered curling hair
oval, 26 in. (62 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with old mine-cut diamond and foiled emerald border, fitted red leather case
Provenance
Ashcroft Collection; Sotheby's, London, 7 May 1946, lot 69.
Literature
G. Williamson/H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 94.
Exhibited
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924-1939.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Miniatures of George Engleheart, J. C. D. Engleheart and Thomas Richmond, 1929, no. 100.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Miniatures of George Engleheart, J. C. D. Engleheart and Thomas Richmond, 1929, no. 100.
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