Lot 335
  • 335

English School

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • English School
  • Portrait of a Gentleman
  • enamel, gilt-metal mount, ebony frame;
    together with a portrait of a gentleman in armour, watercolour and gold on vellum, gilt-metal frame
  • 43 by 35 mm; 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 in.; 51 by 43 mm; 2 by 1 1/2 in.

Condition

The enamel has a hairline crack which runs across the sitter's lawn collar. The colours in the portrait of a gentleman wearing armour are well preserved. Some of the pigment has been lost.
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