Lot 322: JAMES NIXON, A.R.A (BRITISH, C. 1741-1812)

JAMES NIXON, A.R.A (BRITISH, C. 1741-1812)
A lady, in profile to the left, in white satin dress with gold-lined sleeve secured with a pearl over cornflower blue under-sleeve, gold-embroidered muslin fichu, blue ribbon at corsage and adorning her curled and upswept powdered hair
signed with initial 'N' (lower right)
on ivory
oval, 2½ in. (63 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame

Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1976, lot 242.
Frederick Joachim (1904-1994) Collection, London; Christie's, London, 8 March 1995, lot 137.

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