Live Auction 1126Centuries of Style
VILLERS (FRENCH, FL. C. 1780-1800)
Lot 107 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

VILLERS (FRENCH, FL. C. 1780-1800)

Closed4 June 2013

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GBP 3,500

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VILLERS (FRENCH, FL. C. 1780-1800)
A young gentleman, in blue coat with brass buttons, ochre waistcoat, knotted white cravat, powdered hair
signed and dated 'Villers 1792' (lower left)
on ivory
2½ in. (65 mm.) diam., later gilt-metal easel-stand frame with foliate surmount

Specialist note

Another portrait of a young man by this artist, signed and dated 1790, is illustrated in G. Reynolds, European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996, no. 88, p. 112 and colour pl. p. 37.