Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

BERNARD LENS, III | Portrait of John Lens, brother of the artist

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May 7, 03:15 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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BERNARD LENS, III

London 1682 - 1740

PORTRAIT OF JOHN LENS, BROTHER OF THE ARTIST

Watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gold on ivory, gilt-metal frame, blue glass reverse;

remnants of the artist's monogram lower left; the reverse inscribed: John Lens AE[tatis] 24 gunner / ... / Lens At[atis] 26 fecit / March ye 24 1708

10.3 by 7.9 cm., 4 by 3⅛ in.

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Sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 May 1964, lot 10;

Edward Grosvenor Paine (d. 1989), New Orleans;

his sale, London, Christie's, 12 October 1982, lot 49

D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, vol. I, p. 379;

D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 588