Persian miniature painting, horses and riders painted on mother of pearl shell and encased in a Khatam-work frame. Green mount. Whole measures 11.1 cm by 9.3 cm. Comes with  More »

Persian miniature painting, horses and riders painted on mother of pearl shell and encased in a Khatam-work frame. Green mount. Whole measures 11.1 cm by 9.3 cm. Comes with ribbon and brass hanger in shape of leaf. The mount has some brown marks (not too noticeable against the green, probably caused by glue from the setting underneath), and the frame has opened up a little on the top corners. Painting is in excellent condition. As a whole, it still presents very well.   « Less

Persian miniature painting, horses and riders painted on mother of pearl shell and encased in a Khatam-work frame. Green mount. Whole measures 11.1 cm by 9.3 cm. Comes with  More »

Persian miniature painting, horses and riders painted on mother of pearl shell and encased in a Khatam-work frame. Green mount. Whole measures 11.1 cm by 9.3 cm. Comes with ribbon and brass hanger in shape of leaf. The mount has some brown marks (not too noticeable against the green, probably caused by glue from the setting underneath), and the frame has opened up a little on the top corners. Painting is in excellent condition. As a whole, it still presents very well.   « Less

SOLD Antique 19th century Indian miniature portrait depicting Islamic monarch Dost Mohammad Khan (1793 –1863) King of Afghanistan (1826–63) and founder of  More »

SOLD Antique 19th century Indian miniature portrait depicting Islamic monarch Dost Mohammad Khan (1793 –1863) King of Afghanistan (1826–63) and founder of the Barakzay Dynasty. The portrait is hand painted on natural wafer by very fine brush in gouache and gold , with outstanding detail and beautiful colors, backed by paper Inscribed in ink ,“Dost Mohammad Khan”. The portrait retains its original gild silver box frame with suspension ring and the front and back glass. CONDITION: This original painting is in excellent condition with the exception of faded area near the frame, no restorations or repairs. MEASUREMENTS: 5.2 cm x 4 cm (2 in x 1 5/8 in). ALL ITEMS ARE GUARANTEED TO BE AUTHENTIC ANTIQUES AND NOT REPRODUCTIONS ALL OUR ARTIFACTS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY WE SHIP INTERNATIONALLY   « Less

Antique Silhouette : A large hand cut picture of a Gentleman with a top hat A large cut Silhouette of a gentleman with a top hat in a quality leather? Mounted easel type  More »

Antique Silhouette : A large hand cut picture of a Gentleman with a top hat A large cut Silhouette of a gentleman with a top hat in a quality leather? Mounted easel type frame - the reverse of the picture with legend - please see image There is a white sceen on head and heet in certain angles Good Antique Condition with age relate wear commersurate with age Circa purported 1830 12.5 inches (32cm) height X 9.5 inches (24cm) width approx We do not sell Silhouettes as a rule so please view images carefully - we have another smaller Silhouette again purported from the same artist also listed and they came from a good private residence   « Less

A Fine Large Irish Portrait Miniature of a British Officer, Signed & Dated by Horace Hone 1789. The large oval miniature depicts a British officer dressed in a red  More »

A Fine Large Irish Portrait Miniature of a British Officer, Signed & Dated by Horace Hone 1789. The large oval miniature depicts a British officer dressed in a red jacket with gold buttons, gilt epaulets with gold fringe, a white lace cravat and a black high collar with a white or silver button showing below the ear. ;Above the cravat is a black neck band. The officer is facing right and his head is turned towards the viewer with an alert expression, his eyebrows slight raised. ;He wears long sideburns extending slightly onto his face and his hair is worn closely cropped. The miniature is mounted in a brass case with a blue glass back with a central oval filled with woven hair and large gilt letters "JR". Dimensions: Height: 3 7/16 inches x 2 1/8 inches wide. ;Loop on top addition 1/2 inch in height. Signature: To the lower right.are the initials: HH for Horace Hone and below 1789. Reference: The Miniature in Europe, Vol I, Leo R. Schidlof, ;page 371, writes," Horace Hone painted on ivory and enamel and also worked as an engraver. ;He usually signed: H.H, followed by the date." "Horace Hone is one of the best English miniaturists of the 18th century and some of his works equal or surpass those of Plimer and Engleheart. ;His miniatures are excellently drawn and very expressive. ;He paints partly in very distinct parallel brush strokes, using the scrapper for the wexecution of the hair. ;The light in the eyes is always placed very high and often touches the upper eyelid." Examples of his work can be found in the V & A, The National Gallery, Dublin and The David-Weill Collection, Louvres, Paris amongst others. From http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/biographies-of-irish-artists/horace-hone.htm Horace Hone (1756-1825) A member of the famous Dublin Hone family of artists, originally from Holland, Horace Hone was born in London and there received his early training in fine art from his father Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718-84). This instruction encompassed miniature painting in watercolour on various media including enamel and even ivory. At the age of 14, he studied drawing and painting at the Royal Academy Schools, and began exhibiting his works at the Academy in 1772: a practice he continued for the next 50 years. In 1779, he was elected an Associate Member of the Academy, and three years later - at the invitation of Lady Temple, one of Hone''s patrons whose husband was the colonial ruler of Ireland - settled in Dublin. Lady Temple was herself an important member of the Anglo Irish aristocracy with widespread social connections among the ruling classes, and was instrumental in ensuring that Hone received a constant stream of portrait commissions, for which he was eminently equipped. Indeed, his portrait painting became so popular that in 1795 he was appointed to the post of Miniature Painter to the Prince of Wales. Unfortunately, the Act of Union caused many of Hone''s customers to quit Ireland and move to London in the early 1800s. Hone himself followed in 1803, and managed to re-establish himself as a miniaturist. Sadly, he had suffered for many years from mental illness, and declined rapidly in his later years. He died in London at the age of 69.   « Less

Rare & Important 18th C American Portrait Miniature Of A Sea Captain With His Tall Ship, Telescope, American Flag, In An Oval Locket. By Oral Family History It Decended In  More »

Rare & Important 18th C American Portrait Miniature Of A Sea Captain With His Tall Ship, Telescope, American Flag, In An Oval Locket. By Oral Family History It Decended In The Gregg / Jones Family Who Later In Life Settled In Dunkirk, Ohio. It is initialed on the reverse LP or JP. The Portrait Miniature Is In A Superb State Of Preservation Without Any Damage, Repair Or Replacements. Colors Are Much More Vibrant In Person. Sea Captain Has A Pleasant Smile On His Face With Blue Eyes, His Uniform Is Deep Cobalt Blue With Gold Yellow Facing And Gold Buttons. Superbly Rendered By A Currently Unknown 18th Century Artist Working In The Colonies. A Delightfuly Example Worthy Of Any Serious Collection.   « Less

Rare & Important 19th American Portrait Miniature Of Eliza Southgate Bowne By Edward Green Malbone. See other image for family history and documentation.

Rare & Important 19th American Portrait Miniature Of Eliza Southgate Bowne By Edward Green Malbone. See other image for family history and documentation.   « Less

Rare & Important Early 19th Century American Portrait Miniature Of Eliza Southgate Bowne By Edward Greene Malbone (1777-1809). Attributed approximately some where during  More »

Rare & Important Early 19th Century American Portrait Miniature Of Eliza Southgate Bowne By Edward Greene Malbone (1777-1809). Attributed approximately some where during circa: 1803 which is date of marriage recorded for Eliza Southgate. (1784-1809). This is one of a pair of miniatures painted by Edward Greene Malbone , The "foremost American miniature painter" "(Fielding's) This miniature of Mrs. Bowne is one of the 157 known portraits listed in "Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature," by Theodore Boulton, New York 1921. Verified in "A Girls Life Eighty Years Ago" Eliza Southgate Bowne poised for her self portrait in New York on June 18th, in 1803 (Reference Pages 158 & 161) The letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne have been collected and published in a book "A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago." Selections from the Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne, with an Introduction by Clarence Cook, Illustrated with Portraits and Views, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887, Republished in 1980 by Corner House Publishers, Williamston, Mass. The second miniature by Malbone is pictured as the frontispiece of "A Girls Life Eighty Years Ago." This portrait miniature we are speaking of which is for sale by Equinox Antiques & Fine Art in Manchester, Vermont is referenced on page 161. "Malbone has finished my picture, but is unwilling we should have it as the likeness is not striking, -- he says not handsome enough -- So says Mr. B. But I think it is in some things much flattered. It looks too serious, pensive, soft, -- that's not my style at all. But perhaps it will look different: 'twas not quite finished when I saw it; however, he insists (Malbone) on taking it again as soon as he returns from Southward, and told Mr. Bowne, if he must have one he might keep this...." A Girls Life Eighty Years Ago is a well known book to Americana collectors. Eliza Southgate Bowne was of a prominent family, and she lived a very short life (1784-1809). These two miniatures, the first in the process completed by the artist for the newly married Eliza Southgate Bowne are the only two miniatures of her ever recorded. In original condition in an excellent state of preservation and in its original gilt surround oval frame. It is available for sale for the first time since the family repurchased if from Park Bernet circa 1950 via the Erskin Hewitt Collection. Size: 2.325" Width X 3" Height Edward Greene Malbone (1777 - 1807) Before his death in Savannah at age twenty-nine, Malbone had attained his reputation as America's outstanding miniaturist. Leaving his native Newport, RI, in 1794 as a seventeen-year-old self-taught artist, Malbone initiated a career which took him to the major east coast cities: Providence, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Charleston. He carefully recorded his success in an account book begun in Charleston in December, 1801. Among his friends and admirers was Washington Allston, with whom Malbone traveled to England in May, 1801. In London, he frequented the studios and galleries, admiring more the work of his English contemporaries Sir Thomas Lawrence and Richard Cosway that the paintings of the old masters. His circle of associates included the Americans Benjamin West, John Trumbull and Charlestonian John Blake White. He seems to have studied at the Royal Academy on an informal basis. In his native country America he befriended numerous artists, including Anson Dickinson, Benjamin Trott and Charles Fraser. Upon his return from England, Malbone renewed his itinerant path. His periods in Charleston tended to be his most productive. Two-and-a-half months during the spring of 1801 resulted in thirty-one miniatures and in a five-month span from December 1801 to 1802, he painted fifty-eight miniatures. His final visit to Charleston was in the spring of 1806, at which time he caught a violent cold which eventually contributed to his demise. Late that year, Fraser traveled to Newport where he found that "Poor Malbone is not in a condition to paint. I am afraid he is hastening to that bourne whence no traveller can return. He was ill the whole time I remained at Newport." (Charles Fraser to Susan Fraser, 9th October, 1806, Winthrop-Fraser Papers, SCHS. Malbone was recognized as a refined and accomplished artist, whose miniatures had stylistic finesse. Allston, in a letter quoted by Dunlap described Malbone's genius: "He had the happy talent among his many excellencies, of elevating the character without impairing the likeness, this was remarkable in his male heads, and no woman ever lost any beauty from his hand, nay, the fair would often become still fairer under his pencil." In London, John Blake White commented, "Malbone as a miniature painter stands high already, and may rank with the first in England. He is a man of uncommon taste and elegance in that line." And Fraser, in the obituary he wrote for the Charleston Times, state "He imparted such life to the ivory, and porduced always such striking resemblances, that they will never fail to perpetuate the tenderness of friendship, to divert the cares of absence, and to aid affection in dwelling on those features and that image, which death has forever wrested from it. His style of painting was chaste and correct, his colouring dear and judiciously wrought, and his taste altogether derived from a just contemplation of nature." (Charleston Times, 27th May, 1807) Both sitter Eliza Southgate Bowne & artist: Edward Greene Malbone died of consumption. **The complete family history of decent from Eliza Southgate Bowne marriage to present ownership is available to the purchaser along with copies of "A Girls' Life Eighty Years Ago" - Selections From The Letters Of Eliza Southgate Bowne - Corner House Publishers - Williamstown, Massachusetts 1980. **Eliza Southgate Bowne poised for her self portrait in New York on June 18th, 1803 as verified in "A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago" on pages 158 & 161. **A Wonderful Documented Example!   « Less

This is a rare & important 18th C American Portrait Miniature on ivory by currently an unknown superb artist has decended through the Washington, Curtis, Lewis and Butler  More »

This is a rare & important 18th C American Portrait Miniature on ivory by currently an unknown superb artist has decended through the Washington, Curtis, Lewis and Butler families to the late Miss Betty Washington Whiting. This superb 18th C Portrait miniature of an attractive, currently unidentified, handsome young man has followed a line of direct decent through the Washington family that supports the oral tradition that is was once owned by or connected to Americas first President and his family the Commander In Chief General George Washington of Mount Vernon. !8th C American portrait miniatures are rare regardless of who owner them. In a superb state of original preservation. No damage, no repair and no replacement. Vibrant colors and superb details when examined in person.   « Less

Rare & Important 18th C American Portrait Miniature Of A Sea Captain With His Tall Ship, Telescope, American Flag, In An Oval Locket. By Oral Family History It Decended In  More »

Rare & Important 18th C American Portrait Miniature Of A Sea Captain With His Tall Ship, Telescope, American Flag, In An Oval Locket. By Oral Family History It Decended In The Gregg / Jones Family Who Later In Life Settled In Dunkirk, Ohio. It is initialed on the reverse LP or JP. The Portrait Miniature Is In A Superb State Of Preservation Without Any Damage, Repair Or Replacements. Colors Are Much More Vibrant In Person. Sea Captain Has A Pleasant Smile On His Face With Blue Eyes, His Uniform Is Deep Cobalt Blue With Gold Yellow Facing And Gold Buttons. Superbly Rendered By A Currently Unknown 18th Century Artist Working In The Colonies. A Delightfuly Example Worthy Of Any Serious Collection.   « Less