The Albion Collection of Fine Portrait Miniatures
Catalog Information: 164 lots with images
Date: 2004
Auction House:
Bonhams
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: Nicholas Hilliard (Exeter 1546/7 - London 1618)
Henry Wriothesely, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-1624), wearing white doublet slashed and pinked to reveal gold, gold-edged jewelled buttons, starched lace-edged high ruff, blue sash and Order of the Lesser George suspended from his neck, crimson cur [...more]
Lot 2: Isaac Oliver (Rouen 1560/5 - London 1617)
A Gentleman, traditionally called Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566-1601), wearing slashed black doublet, white lawn collar with lace border and gold hoop earring, blue background, gold borderwatercolour on vellum,original blue and white ename [...more]
Lot 3: Isaac Oliver (Rouen 1560/5 - London 1617)
A Gentleman, with fair hair and beard, wearing black slashed doublet and white ruff, blue background with gold border watercolour on vellum, turned bone frame, within later turned wood borderOval, 51mm. (2ins.) high
Lot 4: Peter Oliver (London 1589 - London 1647)
Lady Dorothy Percy, Countess of Leicester (1598-1659) wearing elaborate embroidered dress, falling white ruff, a pearl earring and pearls at her neck, a red embroidered shawl over her right shoulder, fresh flowers in her flowing blonde hair watercolo [...more]
Lot 5: Alexander Cooper (London c.1605 - London 1660)
Gaston d'Orleans (1608-1660), wearing open white lawn shirt with falling, lace-trimmed collar, tasselled ties at his neck, three-pearl earring in his left ear, his hair worn loose and curled watercolour on vellum, replica silver frame with pierced sp [...more]
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