25th Mar, 2020 12:00
GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH 1750/3-1829) Portrait miniature of Lady Barkly facing three-quarters to the right, wearing a white dress with frilled collar, earrings, with curled brown hair Signed with cursive E on the obverse Watercolour on ivory Gilt-metal frame, the reverse glazed to reveal plaited hair Oval, 80mm (3in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 9, 43 (# 171), 68 (sitter # 48) It is recorded that a Mrs. Barkly sat on the 7th of February 1810 and a Mr. Barkly on the 17th of February and that £31,10 was paid on the 24th of March for both.
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