Portrait Of A Georgian Gentleman
Stock No
5931
2015
- £950.00
- €1,101 Euro
- $1,292 US Dollar
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Item Description
Wearing a red coat and white stock, his hair tied in a queue.
Painted on ivory and initialled by the artist Thomas Hazlehurst (lower left); within a gold coloured metal frame. To the reverse a truly fine arrangement of the sitter's (?) hair laid onto opaline glass centred with a blue glass oval with the initials WJB formed of tiny graduated seed pearls; dating to circa 1790.
The ivory registered in accordance with the act.
Thomas Hazlehurst c.1740-1821 was born and worked in Liverpool as a miniaturist, around 1760-1818, his address in 1793 being 9 Rodney Street in that city. He exhibited at the Society for Promoting Painting and Design and at the Liverpool Academy. Examples of his work are held in the V&A, whilst the local History Department of the City of Liverpool Libraries holds a collection of some 387 paintings of Lancashire flora painted by the artist.
2.75 in x 2.25 in exc. suspension.
Item Info
Seller
Seller Location
London, London
Period
18th Century & Earlier
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Location
London, London
Item Location
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)207 7275263
+44 (0)7831 561042
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