Attributed to NATHANIEL PLIMER (1757-1822)
England, ca. 1790-95.
Portrait miniature of a lady. Verso for a lock of hair. Hair, missing. Inscribed in hand-writing "Lady Mountjoy".
Ivory and gilt metal. 7.3x5.9 cm.
Paper labels: Inventory Holzscheiter No. 458 and Inventory MD No. 0446.Provenance:- Christie's London before 1949, Lot No. 84.- Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 18 January 1949.- from a private collection, Switzerland.According to a hand-written note on the back of the miniature, the depicted Lady could be Margaret Wallis, a modiste, the second wife of Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1745-1798).They got married on 20th October 1793.
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England, ca. 1790-95.
Portrait miniature of a lady. Verso for a lock of hair. Hair, missing. Inscribed in hand-writing "Lady Mountjoy".
Ivory and gilt metal. 7.3x5.9 cm.
Paper labels: Inventory Holzscheiter No. 458 and Inventory MD No. 0446.Provenance:- Christie's London before 1949, Lot No. 84.- Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 18 January 1949.- from a private collection, Switzerland.According to a hand-written note on the back of the miniature, the depicted Lady could be Margaret Wallis, a modiste, the second wife of Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1745-1798).They got married on 20th October 1793.
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