Lot 252: Lady Sarah Malden (British, c.1761-1838) Paul Veronese (c.1528-1588), wearing white ruff, red

doublet with white lace cuff and black jerkin, he holds a white handkerchief signed on the reverse with initials and dated Augt 1794/ S M and inscribed: 32/ Paul Veronese/ Painted at East-/ -Bourne In the/ Collection of/ -lldney Esqr, gilt-metal frame with ormolu slip oval, 2 7/8in. (73mm.) high Literature: Foskett, 1979, p.252, ill. p.254, pl.63A Footnote: Paolo Caliari, called Veronese (1528-88), Italian Renaissance painter and one of the great masters of the Venetian Schhol. Sarah Malden, later Countess of Essex, was an amateur artist, who executed in the main, copies of earlier pictures in miniature and in enamel.