Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 4th March 2020
Lot 12
λGeorge Engleheart (1750-1829) Portrait miniature of Matthew Vaughan
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000
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Description
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.