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George Engleheart (British, 1750/1752 – 1829)
A Marchioness in white dress elaborately decorated with pearls, and wearing a pearl headdress
Signed with initial ‘E’ (lower right) and signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse ‘Geo Engleheart / Hertford Street Mayfair / Pinxit /1810’
On ivory
Oval, 84 mm. high, gilt-metal frame set with seed-pearls, the reverse with diamond-set gold monogram ‘GG’ with marchioness’s coronet surmount on a woven hair panel
A Marchioness in white dress elaborately decorated with pearls, and wearing a pearl headdress
Signed with initial ‘E’ (lower right) and signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse ‘Geo Engleheart / Hertford Street Mayfair / Pinxit /1810’
On ivory
Oval, 84 mm. high, gilt-metal frame set with seed-pearls, the reverse with diamond-set gold monogram ‘GG’ with marchioness’s coronet surmount on a woven hair panel
Provenance
With Leo R. Schidlof, from whom acquired by Ernst Holzscheiter in London, 7 January 1950 (inv. nos. MD/0490 and 201).
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