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Lot 296 Dα

A portrait miniature of a young man

Auction 1130 - overview Cologne
16.05.2019, 16:00 - Jewellery
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
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A portrait miniature of a young man

Oil on card portrait of a man in a black jacket with a blue kerchief in a modern wooden frame. Signed twice to the reverse: F. Read and two English addresses. Examined in the frame. 10.6 x 7.8 cm.
F. Read, England, 1st half 19th C.

A portrait of a gentleman in a similar interior is housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, illus. in Schidlof, IV., pl. 476, illus. 975.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Günther Bartels, Göttingen.

Literature

For this English artist cf.: Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz 1964, II, p. 666; Daphne Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge 1979, p. 261 f.