Lot 70: JAMES SCOULER (c. 1740-1812)

A young lady, in profile to the left, her right elbow resting on a red-covered table and her hand raised to her face, in blue-lined lace-bordered cream dress, gold-bordered blue sash, cream scarf in her upswept, plaited hair falling to her right shoulder; pillar background oval, 13/4 in. (45 mm.) high, gold frame, the reverse with initials FV in seed pearls on plaited hair within blue glass surround PROVENANCE Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1978, lot 56. Edward Grosvenor Paine (1911-1989), New Orleans, no. 817; Christie's, London, 12 October 1982, lot 53.