by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Miniature Portraits
Silhouette by William Hamlet. Black and white watercolour on brown card 3 ins. Inscribed ‘SURRY’ on epaulette and on reverse: ‘George Earl of Rothes/The gift of Lady Mary Leslie’ (his aunt)
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Miniature Portraits
By Gervase Spencer, signed ‘GS/17(?)’ Watercolour on ivory, 1 1/3rd ins. Black Vandykian costume. The sitter resembles the older boy in a group portrait called ‘The Children of the 10th Earl’
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Miniature Portraits
By John Smart, signed ‘JS/!763’ Watercolour on ivory 1 1/3 ins. Red coat, blue facings, blue shadows on face. The uniform suggests a Royal regiment and the Earl was an Ensign in the 3rd Regiment of Footguards
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Miniature Portraits
By unknown artist Watercolour on card 3 3/4 X 2 3/4 ins. White dress pale green background. Daughter of the 13th Earl of Rothes, married 1830, Major Augustus Wathen.
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Miniature Portraits
Initialled ‘NS’ 1908. Crayon on card 1 1/2ins. Gilt frame surrounded by seed pearls, reverse inscribed ‘Malcolm 1908’. in velvet lined leather case.
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Miniature Portraits
By E.K.Mayer, signed and dated ’05. Crayon on card 1 3/8ins. Malcolm was 3 yrs old in 1905
