ATTRIBUTED TO PHILIP JEAN (BRITISH 1755-1802)
A pair of portrait miniatures of husband and wife Mr and Mrs J. Richardson; she wearing white dress with blue sash, fichu with frilled edge and wearing the portrait miniature of her husband attached to a blue ribbon at her waist, cloud and sky background; he wearing blue coat with gold buttons and knotted cravat
she set in a gold frame, the reverse with glazed aperture revealing lock of hair against ivory plaque inscribed in Latin with the name and dates of the sitter, set into a fitted red moroccan leather case; he set in a gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal plaited hair around an ivory plaque inscribed in Latin with the name and dates of the sitter and his initials, all set into a gilt-metal brooch mount
watercolour on ivory, each
ovals, 70 mm (2 3/4 in) and 60 mm (2 1/4 in) high, respectively

PROVENANCE:
Richardson family and by descent

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