Georges Antoine Keman

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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE DAVID H L NUGENT ESQ, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS

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Georges Antoine Keman
Governor Nugent, in a blue coat with double row of gilt buttons, scarlet waistcoat and powdered wig
signed 'Keman', rectangular black frame with gilt-metal mount
oval, 2 7/16 in. (61 mm.) high; a print of Lt. General Sir Thomas Dallas G.C.B.(1757-1839), in uniform, in a modern engraved silver frame; Mary Elliott (d.1812), in a black dress with white pointed collar and falling veil, wearing a gold cross suspended from a pearl necklace; a silhouette of a young boy, painted on card; and Sarah Newnham, in a white dress and scarf (English School, circa 1810)
with signature HKirkchhoffer and the date 1803
all in rectangular frames (5)

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Lot Essay

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Dallas, G.C.B.(1757-1839), Colonel of the 4th Light Cavalry, Madras, married Mary Elliott (d.1812), daughter of Cornelius Elliott, Esq. of Wolfelee, Co. Roxburgh. Dallas was a distinguished cavalry officer who fought in the Carnatic and at the siege of Seringapatam. Their second daughter, Harriet married General Dickson, C.B. of Beenham House, Berkshire. (See lot 63)

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