Lot 22
  • 22

Jeremiah Meyer R.A.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jeremiah Meyer R.A.
  • Portrait of a Gentleman
  • circa 1775
  • 7 by 5.5 cm.; 2 3/4 by 2 3/16 in.
wearing a mustard-coloured coat and a white cravat, gold frame set with half pearls, the reverse with glazed hair reserve

Provenance

Jean Heimerdinger, sale in these Rooms, 26 June 1978, lot 109

Condition

Ivory ground. The overall surface of this miniature is good, the face tones are perhaps a little pale and may have faded. There is a small scratch to the glass by the margin, at the lower right. The miniature has slipped slightly in its mount.
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