Attributed to JOSEPH HEYLIGER, early 19th century
Attributed to JOSEPH HEYLIGER, early 19th century

A young Man in blue jacket with cream waistcoat, stock and collar, with brown hair swept forward; together with a young Girl in white dress with brown ringletted hair on a cloud background, American School, 19th century

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Attributed to JOSEPH HEYLIGER, early 19th century
Heyliger
AMERICAN SCHOOL
A young Man in blue jacket with cream waistcoat, stock and collar, with brown hair swept forward; together with a young Girl in white dress with brown ringletted hair on a cloud background, American School, 19th century
watercolor on ivory
2.5/8 x 2.5/8in. the first; 2.3/8 x 1.7/8in. the second
the first gilt-wood rectangular frame; the second gilt-wood oval frame with leaf-carved and beaded edge (2)

Lot Essay

The artist Heyliger whose name is inscribed on this miniature may be, or may be related to, Joseph Heyliger, an engraver in Charleston, South Carolina in 1792. (See Groce and Wallace, The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Art, 1564-1860 (New Haven, 1957), p. 492.)

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