TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES BY ANDREW PLIMER (BRITISH, 1763-1837) AND A PAIR OF 18TH CENTURY PORCELAIN VASES

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TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES BY ANDREW PLIMER (BRITISH, 1763-1837) AND A PAIR OF 18TH CENTURY PORCELAIN VASES
Lieutenant Colonel Henry William Toovey Hawley (1762-1803), in Army uniform; with his wife, Catherine, née Jepson; with a pair of vases painted with identical portraits
On ivory
Ovals, 67 and 71 mm. high, gilt-metal frames; the vases 158 mm. high

Provenance

By family descent.

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Lot Essay

Henry William Toovey Hawley was a Lieutenant Colonel in the 29th Light Dragoon and subsequently in the 1st Dragoon Guards. He commanded the 1st Dragoon Guards from 1797 to 1803. One of his grandsons, Robert Beaufoy Hawley (1821-1836) is depicted in the following lot.

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