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Lot Essay
For a similar miniature of George III in the uniform of 'The Blues', see R. Walker, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 143-144.
Details
RICHARD COLLINS (BRITISH, 1755-1831)
King George III (1738-1820), in blue and red General's uniform ('The Blues') with gold epaulettes, black stock, buff-coloured sword-belt, black cocked hat edged with gold, black cockade with gold stem and black rosette, wearing the breast-star of the Order of the Garter
on ivory
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonised wood frame
King George III (1738-1820), in blue and red General's uniform ('The Blues') with gold epaulettes, black stock, buff-coloured sword-belt, black cocked hat edged with gold, black cockade with gold stem and black rosette, wearing the breast-star of the Order of the Garter
on ivory
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonised wood frame
Provenance
with Edwin Bucher, Trogen.
Special notice
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