GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)
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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 10,000

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)
A young lady, in white dress with frilled collar, wearing a straw hat with loose yellow ribbons decorated with flowers on her powdered upswept hair; sky background
signed on the backing card 'George Engleheart / Pinxit.'
on ivory
oval, 2¼ in. (57 mm.) high, gold frame with enamel border, the reverse with memorial motifs and inscription 'a virtuous friendship extends beyond the grave'

Presumably by direct family descent.
Sir John Gardner Dillman Engleheart, K.C.B. of 28 Curzon Street, Mayfair, London (1823-1923) (a grandnephew of the artist) Collection, in 1889 (in a different frame).
With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 1990.