Lot 13
  • 13

JOHN HOSKINS | Portrait of a gentleman

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a gentleman
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, gilt-metal frame, scroll surmount;signed with initials and dated upper right: 1654. / IH.
  • 63 by 52 mm.

Provenance

Sir Francis Adam Hyett (1844-1941), by 1916,
by descent to the Misses Hyett, by 1952,
by descent to Richard, 2nd Lord Dickinson (b. 1926);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 15 December 1969, lot 158;
sale, London, Christie's, 27 March 1984, lot 302

Exhibited

London, 1956/1957, no. 108

Literature

Foster, 1914-1916, no. 35, pl. XVI, additional volume p. 147, no. 199;
Long, 1929, p. 226;
Reynolds, 1952, no. 22, pl. VIII;
Reitlinger, 1982, vol. III, p. 259;
Darmon, 1990, p. 17, illust.

Condition

Overall in good order with fresh colours.
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