Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)
Lot 169

GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)

Closed27 November 2013

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/53-1829)
Mrs Catherine Greene, in white dress with frilled collar and blue button, powdered curling hair
on ivory
oval, 2.11/16 in. (67 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with diamond-set surround, the reverse centred with gold initial C on woven hair panel

De la Hey Collection; part I, Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1968, lot 103.

Specialist note

A Mrs Greene is listed as having sat to George Engleheart in 1791, see G. C. Williamson and H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829, Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 98.