Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

WILLIAM WOOD | Portrait of Sir William Paxton (1714-1824), circa 1800

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May 7, 03:44 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

WILLIAM WOOD

Suffolk 1769 - London 1810

PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM PAXTON (1714-1824), CIRCA 1800

Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame with pearl border, hair and seed pearls reverse

6.6 by 5.5 cm., 2⅝ by 2⅛ in.

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Danton Guerault, by 1931;

Thomas Hugh Cobb (d. 1944);

his executor's sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 October 1944, lot 54;

Allen H. Johness Jr.;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1972, lot 142;

with Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1980

It is conceivable that Wood based this miniature on a work by Richard Cosway, circa 1790.