Lady Blunt, in white dress with embroidered ruffled border, her dark hair curled and upswept

Details

ALFRED EDWARD CHALON, R.A. (BRITISH, 1780-1860)
Lady Blunt, in white dress with embroidered ruffled border, her dark hair curled and upswept
signed 'A. Chalon' (lower right)
rectangular, 3 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (80 x 66 mm.), silver-gilt frame

Provenance

Fletcher sale, Kemward, Yalding, Kent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 October 1972, lot 142.

Literature

D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, p. 422 (praised as 'a good miniature').
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 422 (praised as 'a good miniature').

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Lot Essay

Elizabeth (d. 1839), third daughter of Sir Charles William Blunt, 3rd Bt. of Heathfield Park, Sussex and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1836), only daughter of Alderman Richard Peers and sister and heiress of Sir Richard Peers Symons, Bt., married her second cousin Sir Charles Burrell Blunt of Ringmer, Sussex as his second wife.

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