Louisa, Viscountess Weymouth, facing right in white silk dress with blue laced bodice and large lace-bordered square collar, blue ribbon at corsage and on bodice, pearl necklace with drop pearl pendant and pearl earrings, her fair hair upswept and dressed with a blue bow; sky and foliate background

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CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (1683/84-1767)
Louisa, Viscountess Weymouth, facing right in white silk dress with blue laced bodice and large lace-bordered square collar, blue ribbon at corsage and on bodice, pearl necklace with drop pearl pendant and pearl earrings, her fair hair upswept and dressed with a blue bow; sky and foliate background
enamel on copper
oval, 1 13/16 in. (46 mm.) high, gold frame, the reverse engraved with coat-of-arms

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Lot Essay

Louisa (d. 1736), second daughter of John Carteret, Earl Granville by his first wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Robert Worseley, 4th Bart., married Thomas, 2nd Viscount Weymouth in 1733 as his second wife.
A very similar enamel is illustrated in S. Coffin/B. Hofstetter, The Gilbert Collection. Portrait Miniatures in Enamel, London, 2000, p. 123, no. 77.

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