Lot 208
A FRAME CONTAINING FIVE PORTRAIT MINIATURES
Closed20 January 2010
Price Realised
GBP 1,500
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A FRAME CONTAINING FIVE PORTRAIT MINIATURES
A young lady, in blue satin dress with lace collar, pink bow rosettes, curling hair, a gentleman, in scarlet-collared blue coat, scarlet waistcoat, white cravat, hair en queue, and a young gentleman, in pink-collared blue coat, lace cravat, signed lower right with monogram PL (all by Peter Paul Lens 1714-1750); a boy, in scarlet-collared blue coat, blue waistcoat, and another identically dressed, both signed lower right with initials and dated S.S./1761
on ivory
ovals, 1 5/16 in. (33 mm.) to 1 5/8 in. (42 mm.) high, rectangular ebonised wood frame
A young lady, in blue satin dress with lace collar, pink bow rosettes, curling hair, a gentleman, in scarlet-collared blue coat, scarlet waistcoat, white cravat, hair en queue, and a young gentleman, in pink-collared blue coat, lace cravat, signed lower right with monogram PL (all by Peter Paul Lens 1714-1750); a boy, in scarlet-collared blue coat, blue waistcoat, and another identically dressed, both signed lower right with initials and dated S.S./1761
on ivory
ovals, 1 5/16 in. (33 mm.) to 1 5/8 in. (42 mm.) high, rectangular ebonised wood frame
A FRAME CONTAINING FIVE PORTRAIT MINIATURES
A young lady, in blue satin dress with lace collar, pink bow rosettes, curling hair, a gentleman, in scarlet-collared blue coat, scarlet waistcoat, white cravat, hair en queue, and a young gentleman, in pink-collared blue coat, lace cravat, signed lower right with monogram PL (all by Peter Paul Lens 1714-1750); a boy, in scarlet-collared blue coat, blue waistcoat, and another identically dressed, both signed lower right with initials and dated S.S./1761
on ivory
ovals, 1 5/16 in. (33 mm.) to 1 5/8 in. (42 mm.) high, rectangular ebonised wood frame
A young lady, in blue satin dress with lace collar, pink bow rosettes, curling hair, a gentleman, in scarlet-collared blue coat, scarlet waistcoat, white cravat, hair en queue, and a young gentleman, in pink-collared blue coat, lace cravat, signed lower right with monogram PL (all by Peter Paul Lens 1714-1750); a boy, in scarlet-collared blue coat, blue waistcoat, and another identically dressed, both signed lower right with initials and dated S.S./1761
on ivory
ovals, 1 5/16 in. (33 mm.) to 1 5/8 in. (42 mm.) high, rectangular ebonised wood frame
Inventory and Valuation of the contents of Newton Hall, Felton, Morpeth, Northumberland, The Property of Brigadier General B. F. Widdrington, C.M.G., D.S.O., 1925, p. 130, identified as members of the Widdrington family.
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