GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)

A young Officer, facing right in the undress uniform of the 1st Foot Guards, scarlet coat edged with gold lace, blue collar, gold epaulette, black stock, powdered hair

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)
A young Officer, facing right in the undress uniform of the 1st Foot Guards, scarlet coat edged with gold lace, blue collar, gold epaulette, black stock, powdered hair
signed with initial 'E' (lower right)
oval, 3.3/8 in. (86 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with glass reverse

Provenance

A. J. V. Radford (in 1929).

Exhibited

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, George Engleheart, 1929, no. 37.

Lot Essay

An identification of the sitter as the Hon. Charles Harris has been suggested. G. C. Williamson and H. L. D Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III., London, 1902, p. 101 lists Lieut.-Col. Harris among Engleheart's sitters in 1809.

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