ENGLISH SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY AND A LATER HAND

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY AND A LATER HAND
A young lady called Lady Hunsdon, in black dress with pink bows, wearing a white ruff and pink ribbons in her hair; blue background with gold border
Bearing monogram ‘IO’ (mid-left)
On vellum laid down on playing card
Oval, 52 mm. high, gilt-metal frame with spiral surmount

Provenance

The Property of the late H. Gordon Bois, Esq.; Sotheby’s, London, 27 March 1947, lot 57 (as by ‘Isaac Oliver, signed with monogram, A lady called Lady Hunsdon', £180 to Plummer).
Mikel Papier (1889-1948) Collection, and by descent.

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Lot Essay

The present miniature compares with a portrait of Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, née Harington (1850-1627) in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, inv. No. 1949.547. it is listed in C. Korkov, British Portrait Miniatures in the Cleveland Museum of Art, London, 2013, p. 66, no. 9, described as ‘Studio of Isaac Oliver’.

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