GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)
Captain Keane Osborne (d. 1812) in blue coat, red waistcoat and frilled cravat
signed with initial 'E' (lower right) and signed and dated in full on the reverse 'G Engleheart N^o 4 Hertford Street Mayfair Pinxit 1809'
on ivory
oval, 3 3/16 in. (81 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount

Provenance

By family tradition, Major General Richard Crewe (1749-1814) and his wife Millborough, née Allpress, daughter of Samuel Allpress (see lot 12).
Their son, Richard Crewe (b. 1786).
His son, Captain Frederick Crewe (1825-1858).
His son, Sir Charles Crewe (1858-1936).
His cousin, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Ross-Thompson.
Thence by family descent.

Literature

G. Williamson H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 108.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Williamson and Engleheart (op. cit.) record that Captain Osborne sat to Engleheart in 1809.
Keane Osborne served in the 5th Dragoon Guards in the Peninsular War where he was Assistant Quarter Master General to the British Army. He was killed at the Battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812. He married in 1805 the Hon. Theodosia Ward, daughter of the Hon. Edward Ward, M.P. On her husband's death, she received £3,000 'in consideration of his meritious services and of his having been killed in battle'.

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