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Lot 204 PROPERTY FROM THE LATE DR WILLIAM LINDSAY GORDON COLLECTION
SCHOOL OF MARY BEALE, CIRCA 1660
A young gentleman, in plate armour comprised of cuirass and spaulders, knotted white linen cravat, long curling brown periwig
Closed2 June 2009
Price Realised
GBP 937
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Specialist note
An identical miniature is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see J. Murdoch, Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, illustrated p. 324, no. 196. A further miniature by the same hand was sold Christie's, London, 24 May 2000, lot 115. It was described in J. L. Propert, A History of Miniature Art, London/New York, 1887 (illustrated opp. p. 66) as a work by 'Mrs. Beal' [sic.].