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Details
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)
Mrs Boone, née Rose Shergold, in white ruffled dress, white fichu, white scarf tied around neck, white turban, upswept curling powdered hair; sky background
on ivory
oval, 2½ in. (64 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, glazed panel on reverse over hairwork
Mrs Boone, née Rose Shergold, in white ruffled dress, white fichu, white scarf tied around neck, white turban, upswept curling powdered hair; sky background
on ivory
oval, 2½ in. (64 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, glazed panel on reverse over hairwork
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 3 June 1992, lot 687.
With Edwin and Rosalind Bucher, in 1992.
With Edwin and Rosalind Bucher, in 1992.
Literature
A Mrs Boone is listed as having sat to George Engleheart in 1793, see G. C. Williamson and H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829, Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 88.
Special notice
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