The Sotheby heirlooms part I: Catalogue of the highly important collection of English portrait miniatures of the 16th and 17th centuries removed from Ecton Hall, Northampton, the property of the late Major-General Frederick Edward Sotheby [sold by order of the trustee in consequence of the death of Lt.-Col. H.G. Sotheby, M.V.O., D.S.O.] comprising miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, Laurence Hilliard, Isaac and Peter Oliver, John Hoskins, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Flatman, Nathaniel Dixon, etc., and including a superb miniature of George Clifford, third Earl of Cumberland, and other fine miniatures of Queen Elizabeth, "King James I", Frances Howard and "Lady Arabella Stuart", by Nicholas Hilliard, portraits of Anne of Denmark, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and Frederick V., Elector Palatine, by Isaac Oliver, a superb miniature of James II, by Samuel Cooper, a circular miniature of a man, of the school of Holbein, the well-known group of Sir Thomas More and his family, English, circa 1600, also family miniatures by Nathaniel Dixon, Laurence Crosse, Andrew Plimer and Richard Cosway, and a group of oil miniatures : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... on Tuesday,11th October, 1955
Veröffentlicht: (1955)