Lot 736
  • 736

Richard Cosway

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Richard Cosway
  • Portrait of a gentleman
  • Watercolour and gouache on ivory, fausse-montre gold frame, blue glazed and plaited hair reverse 
  • 73 by 61 mm

Provenance

With Henninger-Tavcar, Pforzheim, 1996

Condition

Although some of the more delicate pigments may have faded very slightly, overall, this miniature has remained in good condition. There is a small crack in the blue glazed reverse.
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