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Monday, 10 January 2022
Russian portrait miniatures
British school,
Portrait of William III,
c.1690, gold, enamel, silver, rock crystal,10.4 x 6.9 x 2.0 cm. overall;
Collections of H.M. Elizabeth II / Royal Collection Trust
Jean I Petitot (1607-1691) & Gilles Légaré (? 1610-85),
Portrait of Marguerite de Lorraine, duchess d’Orléans,
undated, enamel, 3.5 x 2.7 cm., original frame;
Musée du Louvre. © RMN-Grand Palais; photo: M. Beck Coppola
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Jean I Petitot (1607-1691) & Gilles Légaré (? 1610-85),
Portrait of Catherine-Henriette d’Angennes, comtesse d’Olonne, as Diana,
c.1680,
Philadelphia Museum of Art , Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1961
PETER OLIVER
PORTRAIT OF A LADY, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS LADY ANNE CLIFFORD, LATER COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1590-1676),
CIRCA 1620
Levina Teerlinc
A Girl, formerly thought to be Queen Elizabeth I as Princess
1549
Victoria & Albert-Museum
Teerlinc
Portrait miniature of Katherine Grey, Countess of Herford
ca. 1555-1560
Henry Wriothesely, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-1624),
Lady Dorothy Percy, Countess of Leicester (1598-1659) wearing elaborate embroidered dress, falling white ruff,
A Gentleman, with fair hair and beard, wearing black slashed doublet and white ruff,
Peter Oliver (c. 1565-1617),
Portrait of Venetia Stanley wearing an orange dress and ruff.