λGeorge Engleheart (1750-1829) Portrait miniature of Matthew Vaughan

λGeorge Engleheart (1750-1829)

Portrait miniature of Matthew Vaughan, in a blue jacket and white stock

Signed with initial E

Oval, in a gilt metal frame, blue glass over guilloché and mother-of-pearl back with a lock of hair held by four pearls

78 x 59mm

Provenance:

Miss F Housley, Sotheby's, London, 20 December 1965, lot 19;

Christie's, London 21 June 1999, lot 209

Literature:

G.C. Williamson, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III (London, 1902), p. 117

Mr. Vaughan is recorded as having sat to Engleheart in 1799.