Live Auction 6816Important Gold Boxes,Objects of Vertu & Portrait Miniatures
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750-1829)
Lot 114

GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750-1829)

John Weir (b. 1749), in the uniform of the 41st Regiment of foot, red coat with blue facings with gold embroidered button holes, gold epaulette, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair

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GBP 11,352

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750-1829)
John Weir (b. 1749), in the uniform of the 41st Regiment of foot, red coat with blue facings with gold embroidered button holes, gold epaulette, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair
signed with initial 'E' (lower right)
oval, 3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with plaited hair reverse (2)

Specialist note

John Weir, second son of Alexander Weir of Monaghan and his wife Barbara Crozier, daughter of John Crozier of Magheradunbar, Co. Fermanagh. For another miniature of this sitter also by George Engleheart, see lot 73.
This lot is sold with a gorget of the 41st Regiment of Foot.