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GEORGE CHINNERY (BRITISH, 1774-1852)
Lot 463

GEORGE CHINNERY (BRITISH, 1774-1852)

Fermé2 December 2015

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GEORGE CHINNERY (BRITISH, 1774-1852)

George Chaplin Holroyd (1790-1871), in Army uniform: red coat with gold braiding and epaulettes
On ivory
Oval, 85 mm. high, gilt-metal mount in rectangular black wood frame, the reverse inscribed in ink 'George Chaplin Holroyd'

Bonhams, London, 21 March 1995, lot 152 (as a gentleman believed to be George Charles Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield).

Note du spécialiste

The sitter was a British soldier who served in the British East India Military Service. He married Mary Virginie Mottet de la Fontaine in India and they had two children. On his return to England he became an agent of the Exeter branch of the Bank of England and he joined Cole, Holroyd & Co. in Exeter in 1833. He was an advocate of homeopathy and was on the Management Committee of the Exeter Homeopathic Dispensary.