Lot 124: ANDREW ROBERTSON (SCOTTISH, 1777-1845)

ANDREW ROBERTSON (SCOTTISH, 1777-1845)
A double-portrait of two girls, one called Jane, Countess of Kingston, née Caulfeild (1737-1784), in décolleté blue dress with white underdress, fair curling hair, and another girl, called Mrs Malcott, in similar dress, wearing a wide-brimmed ochre hat with blue rim, fair hair
both on ivory
ovals, 2 1/8 in. (55 mm.) high, set within gold fausse-montre frame, the hinged cover and base centred with polished gold oval reserves engraved with initials JK surmounted by a coronet and LW, translucent blue glass on guilloché ground, bright-cut borders; associated hinged red leather case with attached label for Art Treasures Exhibition, Wrexham, 1876. (2)

By direct family descent.

PROPERTY FROM A WELSH PRIVATE COLLECTION
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ANDREW ROBERTSON (SCOTTISH, 1777-1845)
A double-portrait of two girls, one called Jane, Countess of Kingston, née Caulfeild (1737-1784), in décolleté blue dress with white underdress, fair curling hair, and another girl, called Mrs Malcott, in similar dress, wearing a wide-brimmed ochre hat with blue rim, fair hair
both on ivory
ovals, 2 1/8 in. (55 mm.) high, set within gold fausse-montre frame, the hinged cover and base centred with polished gold oval reserves engraved with initials JK surmounted by a coronet and LW, translucent blue glass on guilloché ground, bright-cut borders; associated hinged red leather case with attached label for Art Treasures Exhibition, Wrexham, 1876. (2)