Circle of John Daniel Kamm, circa 1750

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Circle of John Daniel Kamm, circa 1750
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, The Young Pretender (1720-1788), facing left in armour, wearing the sashes of the ordefrs of the Garter and the Thistle, frilled white lace jabot, powdered shirt curly wig with black wig-bag; sky background (cracked)
scrolling repoussé silver mount on a rectangular brown velvet panel with easel stand by Berville, Paris
oval, 1.11/16in. (43mm.) high

Lot Essay

This is after the pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1748. Another version is illustrated in R. Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, 1992, p. 40, no. 82.

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