Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776-1836)
Lot 403

HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776-1836)

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 5,625

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HENRI BENNER (FRENCH, 1776-1836)
A young lady of the Russian court, in red dress, wearing a pearl necklace with diamond-studded clasp, dark upswept hair
Signed and dated ‘Benner. 1826’ (lower left)
On ivory
Oval, 139 mm. high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular giltwood frame

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Henri Benner was at the Russian Court of St Petersburg between 1816 and 1828. Signed portraits by him depicting Constantin Iakovlevitch Bulgakov (1782-1835) dated 1821 and Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna of Russia (1779-1826) dated 1823 are described and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Historiia Rossii v Portretakh, Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii Musei, Moscow, 2010, nos. 71-72.