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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)
Captain Thomas Sanders (1764-1822), in double-breasted blue coat with brass buttons, white waistcoat and knotted cravat; sky background
signed and dated on the backing card, 'G Engleheart / Pinxit / 1807'
on ivory
oval, 3¼ in. (83 mm.) high, finely chased floral frame with enamel and hairwork reverse, with inscription, 'Thomas Sanders / of Middlesex, / & of Kent. / uxorem duxit 11 Decembris 1796, Obt<\sup> 8 Decembris 1822 aet,, 58'
Captain Thomas Sanders (1764-1822), in double-breasted blue coat with brass buttons, white waistcoat and knotted cravat; sky background
signed and dated on the backing card, 'G Engleheart / Pinxit / 1807'
on ivory
oval, 3¼ in. (83 mm.) high, finely chased floral frame with enamel and hairwork reverse, with inscription, 'Thomas Sanders / of Middlesex, / & of Kent. / uxorem duxit 11 Decembris 1796, Obt<\sup> 8 Decembris 1822 aet,, 58'
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1987, lot 168.
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., by 1998 (advertised in the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair catalogue, 1995, p. 149).
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., by 1998 (advertised in the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair catalogue, 1995, p. 149).
Special notice
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