NICHOLAS (NATHANIEL) DIXON (BRITISH circa 1660-1708) Portrait miniature of Sir Henry Blount (1602-1682) painted circa 1660 Signed with monogram on the obverse Gouache on vellum Gilt-metal frame, the reverse engraved erroneously with the name Judge Jeffreys and the monogram ND and date 1678 Oval, 69 mm high (2 3/4 in) Provenance: Lord Beauchamp, Madresfield; Heckett Collection; Sotheby's, April 1978, lot 501; Richard Allen, 2003 Exhibited: L'Exposition de la miniature a Bruxelles en 1912, 1913, p.25 Literature: G.C. Williamson, History of Portrait Miniatures, 1904, vol. I, pl. LIII, fig. 5 G. Reynolds, English Portrait Miniatures, 1988, p.81 There is another version of this portrait by Dixon in the Met in New York, Accession Number: 24.80.513. Sir Henry traveled widely on the Continent and in Egypt, he was knighted in 1640. He sided with the Royalists in the Civil War. His Voyage to the Levant, an account of an 11 month journey, of six thousand miles, went though eight editions in English between 1636 and 1671.