Lot Essay
Williamson/Engleheart (loc.cit.) record that Mrs Vachell sat to Engleheart in 1784.
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Mrs Richard Vachell, facing left in frilled white dress with bow at corsage, white fichu with high standing collar, thin black ribbon choker, curling upswept powdered hair
Details
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)
Mrs Richard Vachell, facing left in frilled white dress with bow at corsage, white fichu with high standing collar, thin black ribbon choker, curling upswept powdered hair
oval, 1.11/16 in. (43 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular black frame
Mrs Richard Vachell, facing left in frilled white dress with bow at corsage, white fichu with high standing collar, thin black ribbon choker, curling upswept powdered hair
oval, 1.11/16 in. (43 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular black frame
Provenance
Mrs L. Vachell; Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1962, lot 50 (£40 to Woollett).
Literature
G. Williamson/H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 116.
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