Mrs Isabella Beetham, British. (c.1753-1825) Two silhouette portraits (2)
Mrs Isabella Beetham, British. (c.1753-1825) Two silhouette portraits of gentlemen
both bust length, hair en queue and tied with a bow, wearing a jacket and frilled chemise, first facing right, painted on glass backed with plaster, oval, ebonised moulded frame, bears printed trade label verso, 'Profiles in Miniature by Mrs Beetham, No 27 Fleet Street, second, attrib to Mrs Isabella Beetham, facing left, painted on convex glass backed with card, gilt gesso frame, (2)
first overall 14 x 11.3cm.
Condition: First Loss to glass top edge, glass possibly poorly cut originally, Otherwise both in condition commensurate with age
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Mrs Isabella Beetham, British. (c.1753-1825) Two silhouette portraits of gentlemen
both bust length, hair en queue and tied with a bow, wearing a jacket and frilled chemise, first facing right, painted on glass backed with plaster, oval, ebonised moulded frame, bears printed trade label verso, 'Profiles in Miniature by Mrs Beetham, No 27 Fleet Street, second, attrib to Mrs Isabella Beetham, facing left, painted on convex glass backed with card, gilt gesso frame, (2)
first overall 14 x 11.3cm.
Condition: First Loss to glass top edge, glass possibly poorly cut originally, Otherwise both in condition commensurate with age