SCHOOL OF JOHN HOSKINS

William Forester, facing right in gilt-studded armour, lace scarf with tassels, long fair hair

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SCHOOL OF JOHN HOSKINS
William Forester, facing right in gilt-studded armour, lace scarf with tassels, long fair hair
oil on metal
oval, 31/8 in. (77 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with spiral cresting and glazed reverse

Provenance

Henry J. Pfungst (in 1912 and 1915); sale, Christie's, London, 14 June 1917, lot 52 (32gns. to Duits).

Literature

J. J. Foster, Samuel Cooper & the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century, London, 1914-16, illustrated opp. p. 10, pl. VIII (as by Hoskins), Supplement, p. 130, no. 74 (as by Hoskins).
Victoria and Albert Museum. Catalogue of a Collection of Miniatures lent in 1914-15 by Henry J. Pfungst, Esq., F.S.A., London, 1915, p. 17, no. 3 (attributed 'conjecturally' to Hoskins).

Exhibited

Brussels, Hôtel Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 207 (as by John Hoskins, lent by Henry Pfungst).

Lot Essay

An old piece of paper pasted at the back reads 'Wm. Forester Esqr. Father of ye. late Sir Humphry Forester.'
The Pfungst Collection contained a miniature by Hoskins, signed and dated 1649, depicting William Forester's wife Elizabeth.

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