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A lady, in black dress and lace shawl, white fichu and lace bonnet with ribbon bow
Details
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)
A lady, in black dress and lace shawl, white fichu and lace bonnet with ribbon bow
signed with initial 'E' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 5/16 in. (85 mm.) high, gold frame, in fitted red leather case
A lady, in black dress and lace shawl, white fichu and lace bonnet with ribbon bow
signed with initial 'E' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 3 5/16 in. (85 mm.) high, gold frame, in fitted red leather case
Provenance
The Countess of Bandon, née Hon. Georgiana Dorothea Harriet Evans-Freke (1853-1942), C.B.E., by 1929.
Sotheby's, London, 6 October 1969, lot 185.
Phillips, London, 16 December 1981, lot 149.
Sotheby's, London, 6 October 1969, lot 185.
Phillips, London, 16 December 1981, lot 149.
Literature
P. Johnson, 'Portrait miniatures: pretty, portable - and not always that pricey', in House and Garden, March 1983, illustrated in colour p. 91.
Exhibited
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Exhibition of Miniatures by George Engleheart, J. C. D. Engleheart and Thomas Richmond, 1929, no. 169.
Special notice
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