Fine Portrait Miniatures

22 May 2003, starting at 14:00 BST .

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A superb set of four volumes of the Pierpont Morgan Collection of Miniatures, compiled by G. C. Williamson, no.2 of 20 copies, illustrated (by Hallett Hyatt), including 129 hand-colured plates (by Arthur Samuel Greenway Finney); original vellum with silver clasps (some hall-marked), folio, Chiswick Press, 1906-1908

A set of two volumes of Miniature Painters, British and Foreign, compiled by J. J. Foster, Presentation copy, plates, original cloth, London, 1903

Flemish School, A Nobleman, wearing grey slashed jerkin with gold striped sleeves, fine white lace collar, his auburn hair worn long

English School, A young Gentleman, wearing pink-lined brown coat and white lace cravat

Charles S(amuel) Hervé, A young Lady, wearing elaborate white dress, with blue ribbon about her shoulders and held with a flower at her corsage and yellow waistband

Charles S(amuel) Hervé, A young Lady, seated in a chair upholstered with striped pink silk, wearing white dress with layered collar and pink trimmed ribbons on the sleeves and waist, rose at her corsage and necklace, her hair in ringlets

Adam Buck, A Lady, wearing white dress, a coral heart on a black ribbon at her neck

Attributed to W. A. Thompson , Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), wearing Classical robes

Henry Jacob Burch junior, Thomas FitzArthur Torin Ravenshaw (1829-82), aged 2, seated on a stone step before a balustrade and pillar, he wears low-cut white dress with frilled edge, matching pantaloons, white lace bonnet tied beneath his chin and blue shoes, in his right hand he raises a riding-crop, his left arm over a toy horse on wheels

W(illiam) A. Smith, A young boy, wearing cream suit and large frilled white collar

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27% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of £40,000 up to and including £800,000;
21% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of £800,000 up to and including £4,500,000;
and 14.5% of the hammer price of any amounts in excess of £4,500,000.

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