GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53 - 1829)

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53 - 1829)
Mrs Charlotte Bough, in white dress with frills, wearing a large hat over her powdered hair
On ivory
Oval, 55 mm. high, silver fausse-montre frame, the reverse engraved ‘Mrs.. Charlotte Bough / wife of Mr. Bough, Secretary / to Warren Hastings / George Engleheart’

Provenance

A. P. Cunliffe, Esq; (\+) Sotheby’s, London, 20 November 1945, lot 31 (£105 to Papier).
Mikel Papier (1889-1948) Collection, and by descent.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art, 1934, no. 1056, Commemorative catalogue no. 1094 (lent by A. P. Cunliffe, London).

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Lot Essay

The sitter is most likely the wife of Issac Baugh, Secretary to the Supreme Council in Bengal who gave evidence in the trial of Warren Hastings. A Mrs Baugh is listed as having sat to George Engleheart in 1788 and 1790 (see G. C. Williamson and H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829, Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 88).

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