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Lot 108

A collection of sixteen portrait miniatures, including: Luke Sullivan, Irish 1705-1771- Portrait...

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Lot 108

A collection of sixteen portrait miniatures, including:
Luke Sullivan, 
Irish 1705-1771-
Portrait...

Price Realised: £2,493

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

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Lot 108

Description

A collection of sixteen portrait miniatures, including:

Luke Sullivan, 
Irish 1705-1771-

Portrait of a lady, wearing a purple wrap and pearls in her hair; watercolour on ivory, signed with initials and dated 'LS / 1763' (lower right), 4.3 x 3.5 cm.; André Léon Larue, called Mansion, French 1785-c.1834- Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, wearing a black coat and white stock; watercolour on ivory in a gilt scroll mount, signed and dated 'Mansion / 1819' (lower right), 7.1 x 5.5 cm.; together with fourteen further British School portrait miniatures, four indistinctly signed with initials and dated, 8.5 x 6.9 cm. and smaller, sixteen in two shared velvet mounts (16). Ivory submission reference: V63CVF71. 

The lock of hair is encased in a gold and silver mount with graduated closed set foiled ruby and emerald surround. The miniature directly above is double-sided and is encased in a seed pearl border. 

The gentleman in the upper right corner of the first mount, wearing a blue jacket with gold brocade, is a Sir Alexander Hamilton (1730s-1809) who was born in Scotland and later became an East India Company officer. All sitters represented are related to each other. 

Provenance: 
Private Collection, UK (by descent). 

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The buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% up to £20,000 (31.2% inclusive of VAT), 25% from £20,001 - £500,000 (30% inclusive of VAT), 20% from £500,001 thereafter (24% inclusive of VAT). The premium price is subject to VAT at the standard rate.

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