Lot 600
  • 600

TWO PORTRAIT MINIATURES; THE FIRST OF MRS. EDMUND ROLANDS, NEE ANDERSON, ENGLISH SCHOOL, ATTRIBUTED TO SIR CHARLES ROSS, CIRCA 1820; THE SECOND A YOUNG MAN, WILLIAM FREDERICK, CIRCA 1830

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Description

  • Hts. 2 3/4 , 2 1/4 and 4 1/4 in.
she with fair hair in ringlets, wearing a decollete black dress with a pink rosebud at her bosom; he with reddish blond hair, black jacket and white waistcoat, red background, both oval, first in silver-gilt, second in gold rim, oval frames.  Together with a fine portrait miniature of a young boy, Frederic Millet, circa 1820, with short brown hair, wearing pink and buff striped suit and open-necked white shirt, unfinished, on card, oval, in engraved gilt-metal mount on rectangular wood frame.  Three items

Provenance

Sold Sotheby’s London; the first, 12 January 1980, lot 95; the second 30 June 1980, lot 196
The third sold Sotheby’s London, 13 November 1979, lot 99