Nicholas Dixon (British, c. 1645-1708)

Details

Nicholas Dixon (British, c. 1645-1708)
A lady called Catherine, Countess of Chesterfield (1667-1708)
Signed with monogram ‘ND’ (mid-left)
On vellum; oval, 80 mm high, silver-gilt frame with spiral cresting

Provenance

Leo R. Schidlof (1886–1966) Collection, London.
With Gertrud Rudigier, Munich, as advertised in the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair Catalogue, between 1985 and 2000, p. 262.

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Lot Essay

Another version of this miniature, from the Fink Collection, is in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, illustrated in U. E. McCracken, The Walters Art Gallery. A Selection of Portrait Miniatures, Baltimore, 1966, fig. 16 (as a portrait of Catherine, Countess of Chesterfield).

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