Live Auction 5436Kinross House, Scotland And Property Removed From The London Residence of Mrs. Winston Spencer Churchill
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)
Lot 64

GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)

Closed30 March 2011

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GBP 5,250

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)
Mrs Thomas Graham (née Ann Paul), in white lace-bordered dress, wearing a coral necklace, white bandeau in her powdered curling hair and tied below her chin
on ivory
oval, 2 3/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gold frame, the plaited hair reverse set with seed-pearl monograms: AG in the centre and on the right, HG on the left and another set of initials bottom centre
A label on the reverse erroneously attributes this miniature to Cosway.

Specialist note

Ann Graham, née Paul was the wife of Thomas Graham. For a biographical note and a portrait of her husband, see lot 62. The seed-pearl initials on the reverse of the miniature represent the names of the sitter's children: Ann, Helen, and a son who died in 1808.
A Mrs Graham is recorded in George Engleheart's fee book for 1785 (see G. C. Williamson & H. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829. Miniature Painter to George III., London, 1902, p. 97).