GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)

Martha Le Mesurier, facing right in black bordered white spigged dress, black sash fastened with gold buckle, lorgnettes hanging from double gold chain, short dark curling brown hair

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)
Martha Le Mesurier, facing right in black bordered white spigged dress, black sash fastened with gold buckle, lorgnettes hanging from double gold chain, short dark curling brown hair
signed with initial 'E' (lower right)
oval, 36 in. (84 mm.) high, silver-gilt fausse-montre locket frame engraved with the sitter's name, the interior of the cover set with blue glass

Provenance

Le Mesurier sale, Jersey, September 1936.
H. H. P. Le Mesurier.

Literature

G. C. Williamson and H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 104.

Lot Essay

Martha (1780-1846), daughter of Alderman Peter Pochard of London, a native of Guernsey, married Major-General John Le Mesurier (1781-1843) in 1804. He was the last hereditary governor of Alderney.
Williamson and Engleheart (op. cit.) record that Mrs Le Mesurier sat to Engleheart in 1808.

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