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Lot 206: f - SAMPSON TOWGOOD ROCH 1759-1847 PORTRAIT OF SIR HENRY KING

Est: £1,500 GBP - £2,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 30, 2005

Item Overview

Description

half length, with curling dark hair and wearing a blue jacket with brass buttons and white cravat

signed l.r.: Roch/1801, in gold frame with glazed reverse with woven hair
with a gold locket containing miniatures of Earl and Lady Kingston, she head and shoulders, her brown hair partially swept up with two braids hanging loose and wearing a white dress, he head and shoulders with powdered hair and wearing a blue jacket with gold brocade and a white cravat

Quantity: 2

CATALOGUE NOTE

Sir Henry King is likely to be the son of Robert King, Earl of Kingston (1754-1799), and his wife, Caroline, daughter and heiress of Richard Fitzgerald of Mount Ophaly, co.Kildare (d.1823)

Dimensions

7 by 5.5 cm., 2 3/4 by 2 1/4 in.

Artist or Maker

Auction Details

Watercolours & Portrait Minatures

by
Sotheby's
June 30, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK