Mr W. J. N. Hewett, full face in Windsor coat, blue jacket with gold buttons and red collar, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair

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RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (1742-1821)
Mr W. J. N. Hewett, full face in Windsor coat, blue jacket with gold buttons and red collar, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair
oval, 2 3/16 in. (56 mm.) high, silver-gilt mount engraved on the reverse 'W. J. N. Hewett When 28 Born April 19th 1756 Second Son of Selwood & Ann; Father of Cornwallis, Thomas Wrighte, Peter Selwood, Thomas, and William Wrighte by Martha Juting his first Wife, Cosway'

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Lot Essay

This is possibly the miniature shown at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, London, 1889, lent by Sir Prescott Hewett, Bart., and described as 'W. N. W. Hewett' by R. Cosway (case XXIX, no. 77, cat. p. 81).

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