Sale 9847
London, South Kensington
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18 May 2004
Price realised
GBP 478
Estimate
Follower of John Field Princess Elizabeth and her husband Frederick Landgrave: she, in a dress with high collar and wearing a bonnet tied under her chin; he, in profile to left, wearing a coat and cravat painted on card, bronzed, rectangular black frames ovals, 3 1/16 in. (78 mm.) high See part lot Illustration (2)
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Princess Elizabeth was born 22 May 1770, the seventh of King George III and Queen Charlotte's fifteen children. Elizabeth married Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769-1829) in 1818. She died 10 January 1840, without issue.
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This lot should read 'by a follower of John Field' and not as by Field.
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