English School, early 19th Century

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English School, early 19th Century
A Mother with her two young Sons: all in profile to left; she, in lace-bordered dress, wearing a necklace, curling hair; the boys, in coats with rows of buttons and frilled collars
painted on card, heightened with gold, gilt wood and gesso frame with common verre-eglomisé mount
ovals, 26in. (56mm.) and 2.5/8in. (67mm.) high; an unframed silhouette of Henriette Trle (née Mller), in profile to left, her hair upswept with a comb (German School, early 19th Century)
cut-out on card, inscribed with sitter's name and dates below a lock of hair mounted beneath the silhouette; a circular profile of Louis XVI, in coat and hair en queue and wearing the Order of the Holy Spirit (Continental School, late 18th Century)
painted on convex glass; a Lady, in profile to left, in dress and wearing ribbons and lace on her high-piled powdered hair set within painted laurel leaves (Continental School, late 18th Century)
painted on card, shaped verre-eglomisé border in rectangular wood frame
oval, 3¾in. (95mm.) high (4)

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