Live Auction 10398Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
JEREMIAH MEYER (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1735-1789)
Lot 423

JEREMIAH MEYER (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1735-1789)

Closed2 December 2015

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GBP 5,625

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JEREMIAH MEYER (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1735-1789)

An unfinished portrait of King George IV (1762-1830) when Prince of Wales, in red coat with blue collar
On ivory
Oval, 60 mm. high, later silver frame with paste surround and tied ribbon surmount

Sotheby's, London, 19 December 1977, lot 123 (as a young officer).

Specialist note

A finished miniature by Jeremiah Meyer which corresponds to the present lot is in the British Royal Collection, see R. Walker, op. cit., p. 131, no. 258, illustrated, and a further version is at Calenberg.