ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD MILES (1752-1828) , A young Boy, facing right in blue coat and white shirt with large frilled collar, long fair hair | Christie's

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14 October 1998

Browse Sale

Lot 53

ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD MILES (1752-1828)

A young Boy, facing right in blue coat and white shirt with large frilled collar, long fair hair

Price realised

GBP 1,495

Estimate

GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

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ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD MILES (1752-1828)
A young Boy, facing right in blue coat and white shirt with large frilled collar, long fair hair
oval, 1¾ in. (44 mm.) high, silver-gilt bracelet clasp frame

Provenance

de la Hey; Sotheby's, London, 4 November 1968, lot 225.
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Literature and exhibited

Exhibited

Edinburgh, The Arts Council Gallery, British Portrait Miniatures, 1965, no. 282.
London, Sotheby's, Childhood, 1988, no. 127, illustrated in colour p. 76.
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