Lot 154
  • 154

John Hoskins

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • John Hoskins
  • Portrait of a Gentleman
  • Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with gold on vellum;
    signed centre left with the artist's monogram: IH, inscribed centre right: 32 
  • 34 by 29 mm

Provenance

Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 March 1977, lot 6;
sale, London, Christie's, 21 April 1998, lot 7,
where acquired by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado

Exhibited

Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1957-58;
Zurich, Haus am Rechberg, 1961

Literature

D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London 1972, vol. I, p. 340, pl. VII, no. 26

Condition

This miniature is in generally good condition even if the sitter's skin tones may have softened with time.
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