21 Nov 2007
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Fine Portrait Miniatures, including the Collection of an American Gentleman formed over thirty five years
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Fine Portrait Miniatures, including the Collection of an American Gentleman formed over thirty five years
Back to auction 15265
(n/a) Nicholas Hilliard (British, 1547-1619)
A Gentleman, wearing black coat with gold buttons, open to reveal white doublet, high ruff and black cap.
Watercolour on vellum, rectangular gilt-metal frame with bloodstone panels, the edge erroneously engraved HENRY STUART. LORD DARNLEY/ ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC OLIVER, the reverse glazed to reveal remains of inscribed playing card and with Astor of Hever collection label (no.M15).
Oval, 50mm (1 15/16in) high
The Lord Astor of Hever, Christie's, 15 June 1982, lot 47
Watercolour on vellum, rectangular gilt-metal frame with bloodstone panels, the edge erroneously engraved HENRY STUART. LORD DARNLEY/ ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC OLIVER, the reverse glazed to reveal remains of inscribed playing card and with Astor of Hever collection label (no.M15).
Oval, 50mm (1 15/16in) high
The Lord Astor of Hever, Christie's, 15 June 1982, lot 47
Sold for
£15,600
inc. premium
Footnotes
- The style of costume worn by the present sitter suggests that he is more likely to have been a Frenchman than an Englishman. It is therefore probable that the portrait was painted on one of Hilliard's trips to France in the second half of the 1570s when he and his new wife Alice Brandon travelled in the entourage of the English Ambassador, Sir Amyas Paulet. Whilst in France, Hilliard entered the household of François, duc d'Alençon, suitor of Elizabeth I. It is thought that he also temporarily set up a workshop in Paris as he is recorded in the goldsmith's records for that town at this time.
Category: Fine Art / Portrait Miniatures
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