Late Additions

1904. Signed. Ernest Rinzi. James Cooper Esq.

c.1863. Reginald Easton. Mrs. Kirkman Finlay (nee Jane Callendar)

1862. Signed and Dated. Cecile Villeneuve. Emma Marie De Polignac.

c.1850. Signed. Francois Meuret. Unknown Lady.

c.1835. Signed. Frederick Cruickshank. Unknown Gentleman.

c.1825. Signed. Pierre-Edouard Dagoty. Pierre-Francois Guestier.

C.1805. Signed. John Thomas Barber Beaumont. Unknown Naval Officer.

1788. Signed and Dated. John Bogle. Unknown Gentleman in Tartan.

1751. Signed and Dated. Gervase Spencer. Lady Louisa Grenville (Aged 8)

20th Century Miniatures 1931-present

2003. Signed. Edward Dyas (Graphite on card). HRH Elizabeth, Queen Mother.

2002. Signed. Edward Dyas. Diana, Princess of Wales.

2001. Signed. Elizabeth Meek. Carmela Arturi.

1983. Signed and Dated. William Mundy. James Kelso, Architectural Artist.

1962. Signed and Dated. Vera Katherine Williams. Girl called 'Jeannie'.

1961. Signed and Dated. Artist with Initial TP. Unknown Lady.

c.1955. Signed. Ethel Court. Mrs. Gilbert, Art Collector and Philanthropist.

1945. Signed and Dated. John McDonald Aiken. Master Aiken (Artist's Grandson)

1941. Signed and Dated. Ada Whiting (nee Cherry). Unknown Lady.

1932. Signed and Dated. William Hill-Thomson. Miss Margaret Cossar.

c.1931. Signed. Henry 'Hal' William Lowe Hurst. Gentleman of the National Hunt.

20th Century Miniatures 1901-1930

c.1930. Signed. Ida Frances Laidman. Unknown Lady.

1922. Documented. Ida Frances Laidman. Lady May Cambridge.

c.1921. Signed. Edith Laidman. Unknown Lady.

1921. Signed and Dated. Alyn Williams. Unknown Boy.

1916. Signed and Dated. Constance Ellen Wise. Artist's Mother?

1916. Signed and Dated. Constance Ellen Wise. Self-Portrait.

c.1910. Signed. Catherine Brenda Coward. A Lady called Elizabeth.

c.1910. Signed. Ernest Widdas. Unknown Child.

c.1910 Signed. J Barnett. Unknown Mother and Two Daughters.

c.1910. Signed. Annie Gertrude Houle. Gentleman with Initial MK.

1909. Signed and Dated. Constance Ellen Wise. Artist's Father.

1909. Signed and Dated. Evelina Mary Corbould Ellis. Unknown Lady.

1907. Signed and Dated. Ada Whiting. Unknown Lady.

1906. Signed and Dated. Cecil Hobson. Mrs Michael Anglo Tayler as 'Miranda'.

1906. Signed and Dated. Alyn Williams. Mrs Violet Hammersley.

c.1905. Signed. Katurah Collings. Unknown Mother and Child (Photominiature)

1904. Signed and Dated. Edith Maas. Master Thomas Henry Hamilton Perrot Aged 5.

1902. Signed and Dated. May Hartog. Marie Lloyd?

1901. Signed and Dated. LW Dent. Unknown Lady.

c.1901. Signed. Mathieu Deroche. Two Unknown Girls.

19th Century Miniatures 1851-1900

c.1900. Signed. Artist with Initials JG. Enamel Photominiature of a Maharajah.

1900. Signed and Dated. May Bridgman. Unknown Boy.

1896. Signed and Dated. Hugh Nicholson. Mrs. W G Pirrie.

1894. Signed and Dated. Charles James Turrell. Lady Alice Montagu.

1893. Signed and Dated. George Frederick Zink. Master Walter Frances Hanna.

c.1890. Signed. Winifred Hope Thomson. Unknown Gentleman.

c.1890. Signed. Artist with Initials DVH. Unknown Gentleman.

1886. Signed and Dated. Charles James Turrell. Princess Alexandra.

1886. Signed and Dated. Charles James Turrell. Colonel George Gosling

c.1885. Signed. Gerald Hayward. Mary Rutherford Morris.

c.1880. Signed. Sidney Carlton Maguire. Unknown Girl.

1879. Signed and dated. Albert Theer. William, Grand Duke of Luxemberg.

1862. Signed and Dated. William Egley. Gilbert Hastings.

1862. Signed and Dated. William Egley. Lady Flora Hastings.

1862. Signed and Dated. William Egley. Charles Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun.

c.1860. Edouard lobo Moira. Miss Ruth Ellen Rawlinson.

c.1860. Edouard Lobo Moira. Lady Ruth Rawlinson.

c.1860. Edouard Lobo Moira. Sir Robert Rawlinson.

1859. Signed and Dated. Alfred Weigall. Baroness (Earl of Guilford family)

Response to Questions

We publish here our response to any email questions about the collection while respecting the privacy of the sender. Other general questions will only be published with the permission of the sender, again not publishing any person's identity






15th November 2009

Question:

I am trying to trace miniatures of the townshend group and would like to know more about the charming miniature listed (c.1795 Andrew Plimer. Lady Anne and Lady Charlotte Townshend).

Are the two girls daughters of the second marquess: Lady Harriet Anne who married Edward ferrers & Charlotte who married Cecil Bishop.

Our answer:

These two girls are the daughters of George Townshend, who was the 1st Marquess (1724-1807) and his second wife, Anne Montgomery. Lady Anne married Harrington Hudson of Bessingby Hall, Yorkshire in 1795 and Lady Charlotte married Sir George Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds in 1797. Sorry for the delay in our reply and we hope this information helps. Best wishes. Portrait Miniature Club

14th November 2009

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13th November 2009


We recently received an email thanking us for listing our collection. This was our reply.

'thank you very much for your kind email, and we are glad that you are enjoying the images of our collection. We are still adding images for the later miniatures. We shall be publishing the book of our collection early next year, which will include even better photographs, showing all the brushstrokes and signatures etc. as well as some new information about certain artists. It is hoped that people will exchange information and opinions through the Portrait Miniature Club that we are in the process of forming, which will be free to any interested party. Thank you again for taking the trouble to write to us. Best wishes. Portrait Miniature Club'

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ps. Thank you to everyone for your kind comments on this blog

12th November 2009.

We have been asked if the miniature by Jean-Baptiste Augustin of La Marquise d'Harcourt c.1807 has the sitter identity inscribed.

Our Reply:

As regards the miniature that we identify as La Marquise D'Harcourt, we agree that she should not be considered as a serious portrait! We bought her for fun! The miniature is not inscribed with the sitter's name, but we identified her from an image of the same, clothed, sitter in an old exhibition catalogue, where she was named. As you know, there are many versions of her: in the Wallace Collection, described as Unknown girl (fully clothed) in the Manner of Augustin (p.201 of their catalogue), a version by Isabey (fully clothed) and this miniature exhibited at Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1889, Case 36, No. 31, lent by J. Lumsden Propert, and an almost identical version of the sitter in the same pose was painted by Rousseau and pictured in Schidloff's four volume catalogue of miniatures no. 1030, plate 503. Our version, which we have to say appears to us to have a question mark over the artist ( as to whether it is by husband or wife Augustin) came from the Pierpont Morgan Collection and was sold as Lot 745 to Schidloff for the sum of £35.14s. In our opinion, the unmistakable Augustin techniques are there, but in some respects it lacks a finesse that the 'Master' usually displayed.

19th Century Miniatures 1821-1850

c.1850. American School. Charles de Young.

c.1850. Artist's card on rear. Emily Scott. Unknown Lady.

c.1850. Signed. Josef Kriehuber. Unknown Officer.

1847. William Egley. Signed and Dated. Unknown Lady.

c.1845. Robert Thorburn. Unknown Lady.

c.1845. Josef Kriehuber. Signed. Unknown Lady.

c.1845. Cornelius Durham. Unknown Girl.

1842. Aimee Zoe Lizinka de Mirbel. Signed and Dated. Unknown Lady.

c.1841. Edouard de Latour. Signed. Unknown Gentleman.

1839. Edouard de Latour. Signed (added?) Unknown Lady

1839. Pierre Edouard Dagoty. Signed and Dated. Unknown Lady.

1839. Jean Baptiste Isabey. Signed and Dated. Unknown Lady.

1838. Michael Theweneti. Signed. Admiral Duff's Children.

c.1835. Emanuel Peter. Unknown Lady.

1834. Alfred Chalon. Signed and Dated. Unknown Lady.

1833. Samuel Stump. Signed and Dated. Unknown Gentleman.

c.1831. Sir William Derby. Signed. George Ralph Abercromby MP.

1831. Daniel Saint. Signed. Mr W R Lawrence.

c.1830. Andre Leon Larue (Mansion). Signed. Louis Philippe, King of the French.

1827. Octavius Oakley. Signed and Dated. Eliza Ransome.

1827. George Dyer. Signed and Dated. Unknown Lady.

1826. Sir William Charles Ross. Signed and Dated. Lady de Hochepied Larpent.
(nee Charlotte Cracroft)

1825. S. Jacques Marie Le Gros. Signed and Dated. Mrs. Williams.

1823. John Linnell. Signed and Dated. Mrs. Samuel Rogers.

1821. Peter Paillou. Signed and Dated. Miss Leigh Richmond.

1821. Sir William Derby. Signed and Dated. Lady Julia Peel (Prime Minister's Wife)

19th Century Miniatures 1806-1820

c.1820. Johann Michael Sattler. Signed. Unknown Lady.

c.1820. Charles Bourgeois. Signed. Duchess d'Angouleme, Daughter of King Louis XVI

c.1820. Andrew Robertson. Thomas Greene Esq.

c.1820. John Cox Dillman Engleheart. Unknown Lady.

c.1820. Aimee Zoe Lizinka de Mirbel. Signed. Duc de Duras.

C.1819. Richard Cosway. Signed. Lord Viscount Petersham (Later 4th Earl of Harrington)

1818. J C D Engleheart. Signed and Dated. Hugh Price.

1818. Michael Moritz Daffinger. Signed and Dated. A Gentleman called Adolf.

1817. Andre Leon Larue, known as Mansion. Signed and Dated. Unknown Gentleman.

1816. Alexander Galloway. Signed and Dated. A Scottish Laird aged 34.

1816. Henry Bone. Signed and Dated. George Bowles.

1815. Peter Paillou. Signed and Dated. Mr. Reddie.

c.1815. Andrew Robertson. Mistress McCallister.

1814. Thomas Richmond. Signed and Dated. Mary Spencer Wynter.

c.1812. Samuel Stump. Signed. Gentleman with initial 'T'.

c.1812. Sir William Newton. Miss Charlotte Cracroft
(Later Lady De Hochepied Larpent)

c.1812. Charles Pierre Cior. Signed. Unknown Lady.

c.1812. Francois Ferriere. Unknown Gentleman.

1810. Mary Ann Knight. Signed and Dated. Fanny, Lady Ponsonby.

c.1810. Anne Mee. Priscilla, Lady Burghersh, Countess of Westmoreland.

c.1810 Henry Jacob Burch. Maria Jane Jackson (later Mrs. C Williams)

c.1810. George Chinnery. Unknown Gentleman.

c.1810. Andrew Plimer. John Jackson.

1809. Madame Dumeray. Signed and Dated. Unknown Gentleman.

1808. Thomas Hargreaves. Signed and Dated. Mr.Leigh.

1808. Jean-Baptiste Augustin. Signed and Dated. Unknown Gentleman.

1807. Thomas Hargreaves. Signed and Dated. Mrs. Leigh.

1807. Jean-Baptiste Augustin. Signed and Dated. Unknown Lady.

1807. Franziska Schopfer. Signed and Dated. Countess Therese Apponyi.

C.1807. Jean-Baptiste Augustin. La Marquise D'Harcourt

1807. Henry Edridge. Signed and Dated. unknown Mother and two Daughters
Watercolour on card.

1807. Henry Bone. Signed and Dated. Mrs John Halkett (nee Anne Todd)