Auction Catalogue

11 & 12 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British & World Coins, Commemorative Medals and Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 532

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11 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£150

United Patriots National Benefit Society of Great Britain (Inst. 1843), a silver Directors’ medal, unsigned, named (Geoe. Richmond), 48mm (D & W 162/475; cf. DNW M12, 28); together with other miscellaneous medals, etc, in silver (6), copper (5) [12]. About very fine and better £100-150

George Richmond, RA, FSA, FRIBA (1809-96), painter and a member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Richmond was one of the most influential people in English high society in the Victorian era, receiving honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. He produced a series of portraits of eminent people from the 1840s to the early 1890s, including Queen Adelaide, the Prince of Wales, Charlotte Brontë, Cardinal Newman, Lord Palmerston, William Gladstone, Charles Darwin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Michael Faraday, etc. Further biographical details are sold with the lot