Live Auction 7731Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1683/84-1767)
Lot 217

CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1683/84-1767)

Mary Campbell, née Bellenden (bap. 1685, d. 1736), in black Renaissance-style dress, pearl strand suspended across the bodice, pearl necklace, white ruff with lace band, a gold embroidered black cap with white feather in her upswept dark brown hair

Closed2 June 2009

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GBP 4,375

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CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1683/84-1767)
Mary Campbell, née Bellenden (bap. 1685, d. 1736), in black Renaissance-style dress, pearl strand suspended across the bodice, pearl necklace, white ruff with lace band, a gold embroidered black cap with white feather in her upswept dark brown hair
enamel on copper
oval, 1¾ in. (45 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
paper label attached to the counter-enamel inscribed 'Honble. Mary, daughter of Bellenden, m. 1720 John Campbell K. T. 4th Duke of Argyll.'

Specialist note

Another miniature of Mary Campbell, née Bellenden, by Zincke after Charles Jervas (British, c. 1675-1739), sold Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1968, lot 98. The miniature after Charles Jervas's full-length portrait of Mary Campbell, as Mary Queen of Scotts, bears the inscription 'The Honb: Mary Campbell Daught. to: Jo: L Bellenden. and Wife to Colo. Jo: Campbell. /CF. Zincke pinxt 1722' on its counter-enamel.