George Engleheart 1752-1829

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

George Engleheart
two portraits of Nathaniel Lee Acton (1757-1837)

one, head and shoulders, wearing a blue coat, white waistcoat and a ruffled cravat, gold frame contained in a rectangular black lacquer frame; and a second version head and shoulders, wearing an olive green coat mounted on a circular tortoiseshell box with gold mounts

Literature

G.C. Williamson and H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart, London, 1902, p. 86

Catalogue Note

These portraits possibly date from the early 1790's. Engleheart's fee-book records the artist having painted a Mr Acton Senior in 1793.