Live Auction 21919An Opulent Aesthetic: An Important Private Collection from an English Country House
PHILIPPE MERCIER (BERLIN 1689-1760 LONDON)
Lot 71

PHILIPPE MERCIER (BERLIN 1689-1760 LONDON)

Portrait of a boy, full-length, in a blue coat, with a spinning top on a terrace

Closed9 February 2023

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GBP 20,000–30,000

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PHILIPPE MERCIER (BERLIN 1689-1760 LONDON)
Portrait of a boy, full-length, in a blue coat, with a spinning top on a terrace
signed and dated 'Phil. Mercier. fecit / ano. 1740.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)

By descent in the King-Wilkinson family of Staidburn, Clitheroe to the following,
Mrs M.A.L. Williams, sold on behalf of the Multiple Sclerosis Society; (†), Sotheby’s, London, 21 November 1984, lot 30.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 22 November 2006, lot 20, where acquired by the present owner.