FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800 | Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1800

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1800
Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-metal mount, black lacquered frame
48 mm. Diam.

Provenance

Sale, London, Christie's, 11 May 1994, lot 63

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 431, fig. 385

Catalogue Note

The sitter wears the ribbon and medal of the Masonic Order of the Red Cross. The backing paper is inscribed with a dedication to E.H. Crouch, written by H.S. Hall and dated 1919, stating the sitter is his grandfather, Henry Sanderson Hall, who died aged 92 in 1909. Despite this information the portrait would appear to have been painted at the very beginning of the 19^th century.