Lot Essay
Geoffrey, eldest son of Captain Geoffrey Nightingale, Grenadier Guards and Mary Knowlys, married his cousin Anna Maria Martha Knowlys on 25 February 1857 at St. James's, Piccadilly.
A boy called Geoffrey Nightingale, facing right in black coat, purple waistcoat, white shirt and black stock with gold stick pin, parted curling brown hair
Details
JACOB SPELTER (c. 1800 - after 1856)
A boy called Geoffrey Nightingale, facing right in black coat, purple waistcoat, white shirt and black stock with gold stick pin, parted curling brown hair
signed 'Spelter' (lower right)
on porcelain
rectangular, 3 x 2.5/8 in. (82 x 67 mm.), pierced and scrolling gilt plaster and wood frame with trade label of Ferraro, Carver and Gilder, London
A boy called Geoffrey Nightingale, facing right in black coat, purple waistcoat, white shirt and black stock with gold stick pin, parted curling brown hair
signed 'Spelter' (lower right)
on porcelain
rectangular, 3 x 2.5/8 in. (82 x 67 mm.), pierced and scrolling gilt plaster and wood frame with trade label of Ferraro, Carver and Gilder, London
Provenance
Thomas Knowlys Parr.