Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

A 19th century oval portrait miniature of a gentleman by Thomas Hargreaves, bust length, wearing a navy coat, cream waistcoat and stock, signed with initials ‘T H’, mounted verso with curled locks of hair arranged round a seed pearl-bordered oval blue enamel panel bearing the initials ‘W H’, watercolour on ivory, in a gilt metal plain frame, portrait dimensions 72 x 58 mm. £300-£500

By family descent.

Thomas Hargreaves (1775 - 1846), of Liverpool; apprenticed to Sir Thomas Lawrence; exhib. R A 1798, 1808 & 1809; a member of the Liverpool Academy. His three sons, Francis, George and (James?) all became painters of miniatures.

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