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Lot 1130
Continental School (circa 1800), Two Miniature Portraits of Young Officers
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Watercolor in ivory, unsigned, the first of a dark-haired sitter with direct gaze having green eyes with blue coat and red-breast, white waist coat, wearing a jeweled pendant beneath a black stock; the second of a naval officer wearing bicorne hat with gold trim, blue jacket with black stock and frilled chemise. Each presented behind glass in ebonized frames with oval ormolu bezel.

Miniatures 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.; frames 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Miniature of officer wearing hat with later retouch to background; some marks and nicks to frames.

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