Portrait miniature of a gentleman in a blue coat with a red curtain in the background
signed and dated ‘I.Bogle / pinxt. / 1796’ (mid-right)
on ivory (ref FKWPF7Q3)
oval, 75mm high
in a gilt-metal mount
Estimate: | £500 - £700 |
Hammer price: | £1,700 |
Provenance
A.P. Cunliffe;
Sotheby’s, London, 20 November 1945, lot 35,
acquired by Mikel Papier;
Mikel Papier Collection; thence by descent via his granddaughter
Liz Field
Exhibited
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, long term loan;
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art, 1934, no. 1022
(lent by A.P. Cunliffe)
Literature
B. Long, ‘John Bogle, Miniature Painter’, The Connoisseur, 1923,
p. 218.
Condition Report
Tony flecks of paint loss off left border, otherwise good overall condition. No fluorescence under ultraviolet; unexamined out of frame.