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Click here to subscribeCrimea War: a particularly interesting gilded cardboard sheet mounted with fifteen oval portrait studies of military commanders of the time together with Victoria, Albert, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon III and Eugenie, each portrait named (some in French) and painted as miniature glass pictures in bright colours and well gilded, each with a simple pressed brass oval frame, circa 1855, 227mm x 307mm overall
Photographs & Ephemera - Approximately ninety carte-de-visite type portrait, topographical, and works-of-art photographs, the portraits including a Chamois huntsman and a fisherwoman (Ostende studio); together with a 19th century gilt-leather album of hand-written anecdotes and quotes, also containing six photographic negative prints of ferns; a small book of minutes for the Thornton Dale Miniature Rifle Club, circa 1911-15 (some earlier pages excised); and other items. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.
Mary I Hailwood (R.A) (British 1908 - 1983). A portrait miniature on vellum or ivory of Mrs M A Broadhead, the grandmother of illustrator and horse artist William Smithson Broadhead (1888 - 1960). She is shown seated with head lowered, knitting, in a black jacket and white shirt with pearls, unsigned, but labelled verso '(Miss) Mary Hailwood, Old Hastings Hotel, Warninglid, Haywards Heath Sussex, No.2 Title Mrs M A Broadhead.' 6.5cm by 7.5cm.
Circle of Henry Burch (late 18th century), Miniature portrait of a gentleman, head and shoulders, with short powdered hair and wearing a white and pale blue stock and black coat, red sky background, oval, 7.5cm, within a gold case with blue glass, hair and seed pearl back; together with two other miniatures of gentleman of the same period, by different hands. (3)
Peter Paillou (circa 1757 - circa 1831), Miniature portrait of a gentleman in black coat, white shirt and stock, signed and dated 'P. Paillou 1815', oval, 7cm high, in a gold frame, the reverse with glass aperture to reveal a locket of hair. *A label attached to this miniature reads 'Mr Reddie, friend of Capt and Mrs G Aldham, sponsor to their daughter Cecilia Reddie Aldham, 1814'.
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