DAVID LOGGAN | PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY, CIRCA 1690

With Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1985;

by whom sold to Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

Dr Pohl-Ströher, the late owner of this work, was a truly astonishing collects or, with interests in subjects as diverse as books, drawings, folk art, minerals, paintings and portrait miniatures.

Her collects ion of portrait miniatures was formed over a period of nearly forty years, between 1978 and 2016. By the end of her life, it comprised more than 1800 individual works, ranging from the 16^th to the 19^th centuries, and included a plethora of remarkable works from all the major national schools. It is now widely recognised as one of the most important private collects ions ever assembled. Other works from the collects ion in sale are lots 245 through to 253.