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Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

Horace Hone, A.R.A.

Portrait of a gentleman

Lot Closed

December 9, 05:36 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919-2016)

Horace Hone, A.R.A.

London 1754 - 1825

Portrait of a gentleman


watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame, the reverse with central glazed hair reserve;

signed with monogram and dated lower right: HH / 1785

7.2 by 5.6 cm., 3 by 2½ in.

Jeffrey Whitehead, London, by 1889;
J.B. Robertson, by 1965,
His sale, London, Christie's, 12 July 1988, lot 188
London, Burlington Replica Handbags s Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, no. 9;
Edinburgh, The Arts Coucil Gallery, British Portrait Miniatures, 1965, no. 284
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniatures Painters, London 1972, vol. I, pp. 335-336;
D. Foskett, Collection Miniatures, Woodbridge 1979, p. 229, no. 55A;
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge 1987, pp. 229, 569, no. 55A