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Lot 183
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)
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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)
A young lady, in white dress, wearing a straw hat with loose yellow ribbons decorated with flowers
Signed on the backing card 'George Engleheart / Pinxit.'
On ivory
Oval, 57 mm. high, gold frame with enamel border, the reverse with memorial motifs and inscription 'a virtuous friendship extends beyond the grave'
A young lady, in white dress, wearing a straw hat with loose yellow ribbons decorated with flowers
Signed on the backing card 'George Engleheart / Pinxit.'
On ivory
Oval, 57 mm. high, gold frame with enamel border, the reverse with memorial motifs and inscription 'a virtuous friendship extends beyond the grave'
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750/1753 - 1829)
A young lady, in white dress, wearing a straw hat with loose yellow ribbons decorated with flowers
Signed on the backing card 'George Engleheart / Pinxit.'
On ivory
Oval, 57 mm. high, gold frame with enamel border, the reverse with memorial motifs and inscription 'a virtuous friendship extends beyond the grave'
A young lady, in white dress, wearing a straw hat with loose yellow ribbons decorated with flowers
Signed on the backing card 'George Engleheart / Pinxit.'
On ivory
Oval, 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.
The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot (1926-2012); (+) Christie's, London, 20 November 2013, lot 3.
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.
The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot (1926-2012); (+) Christie's, London, 20 November 2013, lot 3.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, case XXII (in a different frame, lent by J. Gardner D. Engleheart, Esq., C.B.).
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