CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (1683/84-1767)

A young Lady, called Henrietta Boyle, facing right in low-cut blue dress with white underslip, rope of pearls attached to a jewelled brooch at corsage, pearl necklace and drop pearl earrings, armlet and pearls in her upwsept brown hair dressed in plaits and ringlets

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CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (1683/84-1767)
A young Lady, called Henrietta Boyle, facing right in low-cut blue dress with white underslip, rope of pearls attached to a jewelled brooch at corsage, pearl necklace and drop pearl earrings, armlet and pearls in her upwsept brown hair dressed in plaits and ringlets
enamel on copper
oval, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with reeded border

Lot Essay

This enamel is based on Sir Peter Lely's large-scale oil portrait of a young Lady called Henrietta Boyle at Chatsworth.
Henrietta Boyle (d. 1687) was the fourth daughter of Richard, 2nd Earl of Cork and Orrery and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of 5th Earl of Cumberland. She married Laurence, Earl of Rochester (d. 1687) in 1665.

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