Miniature Portraits + Silhouettes

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Over the centuries families have always treasured representations of their loved ones, and people have been intrigued and collected portraits of the famous and infamous. Before cameras allowed the mechanical and digital representation of people it was the artist job to provide these likenesses. The artists could portray peoples faces using silhouette profiles, which represented an outline of the person, watercolours or oils, to provide a more representational effect, or even the three dimensionality provided by the use of wax, terracotta, porcelain or base metals. 

James Tassie, 1735 - 1799
Alexander Waugh, AM, 1794
Wax, inscribed to base and in original frame.
​Frame 13 x 9.5 cm
*Cat No. 401 in John Miller Gary: James and William Tassie: A Biographical and Critical Sketch, with a Catalogue of Their Portraits, 1894        
​Price: $390 incl GST

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5 - An Eighteenth Century wax portrait miniature of a gentleman
In original mahogany hexagon frame
Frame 14 x 15 cm            
Price: $320 incl GST

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6 - A Nineteenth Century coloured wax miniature portrait of a lady
Frame 16 x 13 cm            
​Price: $240 incl GST

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​​9 - Jean Urbain Guerin, French (1815 – 1860)
Lady in a white dress in  fine original silver and gem set frame
Signed lower right
Miniature on ivory 
Image 6.7 cm
Ex John Klinger, Artists Market Antiques, label attached        Price: $1,200 incl GST

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11 - A fine portrait miniature of a young lady
In original paper mâché frame
Image: 6 cm height Frame 11cm high            
​Price: $345 incl GST

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16 – A very fine Nineteenth Century watercolour miniature of a gentleman in a brown coat
Inscribed to reverse: "J. Simpson my Great Grandmothers Brother"
In a paper mâché frame
Image 7.7 cm high Frame 15 cm high            
​Price: $280 incl GST

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17 – An Eighteenth Century portrait miniature of a gentleman in a blue coat
In a pressed brass frame.
Frame 14 cm high
Ex John Klinger, Artists Market Antiques, label attached    Price: $185 incl GST

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19 – An English silhouette of a graduate
In paper mâché  frame inscribed to the reverse:
" 1816 / Gregory Miniature painter of / Newgate Street”
Frame 14.4 x 12.5 cm                           
​Price: $245 incl GST

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20 – A silhouette of a Scottish gentleman
Silhouette in a fine elm or houn wooden frame with sitters name inscribed on the reverse.
Frame 21 x 18 cm                         
Price: $450 incl GST

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​21 -John Downman
​(English 1750 - 1824)
Dr and Mrs Beatty
Watercolours
Signed lower right 
38 x 31cm  
Price: $650 (the Pair) ​Incl. GST

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22 -Silhouette of Reverend Davis
A silhouette portrait, with highlights, of Reverend Davis.
​In original paper mâché frame.
Circa 1835
Price: $220 ​Incl. GST

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23 - Frederick Frith (British 1819 - 1871)
George Adams Esq, 1841
Signed to reverse "Frith Fecit 1841", and inscribed with name.
A silhouette with fine gilt highlights
Some discolouring to silk mount
Frame size 14 x 11 cm
SOLD

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