King George III (1738-1820), facing left in scarlet coat with gold-embroidered button holes, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the blue sash and the breast star of the Order of the Garter, powdered wig en queue,

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JEREMIAH MEYER, R.A. (1735-1789)
King George III (1738-1820), facing left in scarlet coat with gold-embroidered button holes, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the blue sash and the breast star of the Order of the Garter, powdered wig en queue,
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'Georgius. III:s D: G: J. Meyer pinx 1767'
enamel on gold
1½ in. (32 mm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For another enamel of King George III, dated 1767 by Jeremiah Meyer, see R. Walker, Miniatures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen: the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Cambridge, 1992, no. 251, illustrated p. 128.

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