HENRY SPICER (BRITISH, 1743-1804)
Portrait miniature of The Honourable Mary Wyndham Bouverie (1757-1832) with her second son Edward
signed with monogram and dated ‘HS / 1788’ (mid-left)
on ivory (ref 51D5H96Z)
oval, 62 mm high
in a gilt-metal frame
| Estimate: |
£400 - £600
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Hammer price:
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£550 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance
Christie’s, 18 December 1990, lot 99
Private collection, UK
Footnote
The female sitter was the youngest daughter of James Everard
Arundell (c. 1803) of Ashcombe, Wiltshire. She married the Hon.
Bartholemew Bouverie, 3rd son of William, 1st Earl of Radnor, in
1779.
Condition Report
Mould spores on the surface of the miniature. Otherwise sound overall; unexamined out of frame.
