Lot 10
  • 10

JOHN HOSKINS | Portrait of a gentleman

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a gentleman
  • Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with gold on vellum, mounted on prepared card, gold frame, scroll surmount;signed with the artist's initials and dated centre left: 1660. / I H.
  • 63 by 51 mm.

Provenance

Ashcroft Collection;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 May 1946, lot 57;
S.H.V. Hickson;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 March 1965, lot 39;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1993, lot 262

Exhibited

London, 1924-1939;
London, 1934, no. 956

Literature

Long, 1926, pp. 132-133, illust.;
Long, 1929, p. 226

Condition


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