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Jean-Etienne Liotard

1702 - 1789 • Switzerland, Europe, Turkey

Pastel portrait painting, miniatures, with subjects from many countries

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A fine portrait miniature of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709)

Richard Gibson

1615 - 1690 • United Kingdom

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:48 (92% sold)

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John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1662-1711), in gilt-studded armour and lace jabot, wearing the blue sash of the Order of the Garter, full-bottomed

Peter Cross

1645 - 1724 • United Kingdom

Portrait miniatures

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Auction Lots:58 (79% sold)

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Samuel Cooper

1609 - 1672 • United Kingdom

Miniature painting

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Auction Lots:75 (79% sold)

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A portrait of Farrokh Khan Amin al-Dowleh

Abu'l Hasan Ghaffari

Born 1812 • Iran, Islamic Republic of

Portrait painting

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Auction Lots:8 (88% sold)

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A portrait of a lady in white, full-length, holding a crown of roses in her right hand, her left arm resting on an altar to love

Lie Louis Perin-Salbreux

1753 - 1817 • France

Miniature painting and pastels

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Auction Lots:81 (80% sold)

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STILL LIFE OF ROSES, HYACINTH, WALLFLOWER AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A LAPIS LAZULI VASE; STILL LIFE OF NARCISSUS, HYACINTH AND OTHER FLOWERS IN A BROWN POR

Gerard Van Spaendonck

1746 - 1822 • Holland, France

Painting, miniatures, decorative art

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Auction Lots:41 (59% sold)

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A rare portrait miniature by the artist portraying Charles I (1600-1649), King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1625-1649), wearing breast plate and

John Plott

1732 - 1803 • United Kingdom

Painting

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Auction Lots:9 (100% sold)

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A Miniature Portrait of A Gentleman (Thomas Coit)

Isaac Sanford

- 1842 • United States

Engraver and occasional portrait and miniaturist

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Princess Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1777-1847), seated on a wooden chair, in white silk dress with lace sleeves and frilled cuffs, yellow sash around

Louis Marie Autissier

1772 - 1830 • France

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:63 (85% sold)

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1814/15, in Petit Costume d’Empereur

Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin

1759 - 1832 • France

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:166 (83% sold)

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A young shepherdess; a young village woman holding a rose still soaked with dew and sitting on a fountain where she is fetching water

Jean Antoine Laurent

1763 - 1832 • France

Portrait and landscape painting

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Auction Lots:65 (66% sold)

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A CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MINIATURE ON IVORY OF COMTESSE D'EU

Jean-Baptiste Joseph De Gisors

1770 - 1856 • Europe

Painting

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A DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF SPENCER JOSHUA ALWYNE, LATER 2ND MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON (1790-1851), AND LADY FRANCES ELIZABETH COMPTON (D. 1883), LATER MRS CHA

Andrew Plimer

1763 - 1837 • United Kingdom, England

Miniature portrait painting

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Auction Lots:329 (79% sold)

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David Granges

1611 - 1675 • United Kingdom

Portrait miniatures

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Auction Lots:32 (81% sold)

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PORTRAIT OF A DEAF YOUNG CHILD IN RED DRESS HOLDING A BELL

Augustus Fuller

1812 - 1873 • Massachusetts

Itinerant portrait

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Auction Lots:2 (100% sold)

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A FRENCH GOLD-MOUNTED COMPOSITION BOÎTE-À-MINIATURE

Alexandre Jean Maximilien Vachette

1753 - 1839

Painting

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A fine micro-mosaic miniature portrait of Ferdinand lV, King of Naples (1759-1806)

Giovanni Battista Luchini

19th century • Italy

Miniature painting

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PORTRAIT OF MUHAMMAD 'ALI KHAN, NAWAB OF ARCOT AND PRINCE OF THE CARNATIC (1718-1795)

John Smart

1742/43 - 1811 • United Kingdom

Miniatures

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Auction Lots:302 (83% sold)

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Jacques Thouron

1740 - 1789 • Switzerland

Painting

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Auction Lots:12 (92% sold)

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Major General David Baird in the attitude of mounting the breach at the assault of Seringapatam

Samuel Andrews

1767 - 1807 • United Kingdom

Painted profile miniatures

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Auction Lots:59 (90% sold)

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Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), wearing crimson coat

Samuel Rickards

c.1735 - 1823 • United Kingdom

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Auction Lots:3 (67% sold)

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PORTRAIT OF A STUDENT IN THE ROBES OF A WESTMINSTER SCHOLAR

Jeremiah Meyer

1735 - 1789 • United Kingdom

Painting

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Auction Lots:125 (76% sold)

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Gerald Hayward

1845 - 1926 • New York, Ontario / England, Russian Federation, Canada

Miniature society portrait painting

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Auction Lots:6 (83% sold)

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Portrait of Charlotte Félicité de Sainte-Aldegonde, née du Hamel, nursing her daughter Aglaé

Johann Ernst Heinsius

1731 - 1794 • Germany

Portrait and figure painting

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Auction Lots:16 (57% sold)

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A magnificent miniature of a young lady called Princess Melanie Metternich (1805-1854), in white dress with voluminous sleeves, wearing a belt with ge

Moritz Michael Daffinger

1790 - 1849 • Austria

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:394 (82% sold)

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Portrait of Thomas Sheppard; and of his sister, Mary Sheppard (2)

John Russell

1745 - 1806 • England

Portrait painting, writing, teaching

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Auction Lots:248 (74% sold)

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A young girl called Marie Dominique Amélie Madeleine Maza (1868-1949), in brown dress and white lace collar, a blue bow in her long blond hair

Camille Cornelie Isbert

1825 - 1911 • France

Painting

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Auction Lots:18 (76% sold)

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A Gentleman, wearing scarlet coat trimmed with gold braid, white waistcoat with embroidered floral border, frilled white chemise, tied stock and powde

John Bogle

c.1746 - 1803 • United Kingdom

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:60 (85% sold)

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PORTRAIT OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (1723-1792)

William Grimaldi

1751 - 1830 • United Kingdom

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:60 (81% sold)

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PORTRAIT OF MISS HELEN GRANT, AS A CHILD

Henry Jacob Birch

1763 - 1834 • United Kingdom

Miniature portrait painting

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Auction Lots:47 (61% sold)

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John Quinton Pringle

1864 - 1925 • Scotland

Figure, genre, seascape and landscape painting

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Auction Lots:20 (80% sold)

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A young lady, in white dress with lace trim with garland of pink flowers draped over her right shoulder and another tied around her right arm at the e

Charles Henard

1757 - c.1812 • Maryland / France, England

Miniature portrait gouache/watercolor painting, women and children

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Auction Lots:31 (94% sold)

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Alexander Mosses

1793 - 1837 • United Kingdom

Painting

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Auction Lots:7 (71% sold)

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A young gentleman, in blue coat with black collar and gold buttons

James Nixon

c.1741-1812 • United Kingdom

Miniature portrait painting

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Auction Lots:28 (75% sold)

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Jonathan Trego

1817 - 1901 • Pennsylvania

Animal, portrait, genre, historical paintings

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Auction Lots:11 (91% sold)

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Emile Galle

1846 - 1904 • France

Art nouveau wood marquetry, architecture, glassmaking

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Harriet Blackburne (b.1794), wearing white dress, sky blue sash and white bonnet, a posy of flowers in her pinafore, which she holds to her chest with

Patrick McMoreland

1741 - after 1809 • United Kingdom, Scotland

Miniature portrait painting

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Auction Lots:22 (86% sold)

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General Henry James Riddell, KH (d.1861) of the 66th Foot, wearing red coat with black facings, silver button holes and epaulettes

Charles G Dillon

fl.1810 - 1830 • United Kingdom

Miniature portrait

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Auction Lots:5 (50% sold)

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Full-length Portrait of a Young Girl in Pink Dress, Three Strand Coral Necklace, Pantaloons and Checked Shoes

Justus Dalee

1793 - 1878 • New York, Wisconsin

Naive child portrait painting

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Auction Lots:52 (88% sold)

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Portrait d'homme en habit gris coiffé à catogan Miniature

Pierre Le Sage

c. 1763- c. 1796

Miniature paintings

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Étienne Bouchardy

1797 - c.1849 • France

Painting

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Auction Lots:19 (88% sold)

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Antonine Adelaide Isabelle Lapoter

1814 - 1880 • France

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Charlotte Le Patourel (née Hinch), wearing white dress with frilled trim, her dark hair upswept

Mathias Finucane

fl. 1798 • United Kingdom

Painting

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Auction Lots:9 (78% sold)

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PORTRAIT OF JOHN CROSSE (1721-1776), THE ARTIST'S FATHER, CIRCA 1770

Richard Crosse

1742 - 1810 • United Kingdom

Miniature portrait painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:147 (83% sold)

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A pair of miniatures of a Husband and Wife; she seated on yellow upholstered chair, wearing white dress and pearls; he, wearing tan coat, grey waistco

Beatrice M Hewitt

active 1884-1901 • United Kingdom

Portrait miniatures

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Joseph Dubasty

19th Century active 1833-1837 • France

Painting

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Auction Lots:22 (76% sold)

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A Lady, wearing white sleeveless dress, blue sash, strands of pearls wrapped around her upper arms, pearl hoop earrings and strands of pearls in her l

Alexandre Rocher

Born 1729 • France

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George Patten

1801 - 1865 • United Kingdom

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:36 (74% sold)

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Thomas Hazlehurst

c. 1740 - c. 1821 • United Kingdom

Painting and sculpture

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Auction Lots:129 (75% sold)

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