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FIVE 18TH / 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT PLAQUETTES
FIVE 18TH / 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT PLAQUETTES
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FIVE 18TH / 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT PLAQUETTES

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1. BRITISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY: HORATIO, ADMIRAL LORD NELSON (1758-1805), oval cast brass portrait plaquette, bemedaled and uniformed bust three-quarters right, large integral suspension loop, 172 x 130mm.

2. GEORGE GORDON, 6TH LORD BYRON (1788-1824), silhouetted oval cast brass portrait plaquette, three-quarters left, on circular turned wood mount, 143mm.

3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), small silhouetted bust left in gilt brass, in circular wooden frame, 135mm.

4. JOHN WESLEY, a cast brass portrait of a cleric, probably John Wesley (1703-1791), bust right, on rectangular brass backplate, 102.5 x 104mm.

5. AFTER JEAN WARIN (FRENCH, ?1596-1672): AN OVAL CAST BRONZE PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE, his bearded bust right, the left hand across his breast, 128.5 x 106mm., in ebonised frame

The German medallist Leonard Posch (1750-1831) made a version of the plaque, whist attributing the original to Antonio Abondio.

Literature: Frédéric Pény, Jean Warin de Liège, Liège, 1947, pp. 56-58; pl. XXII.

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FIVE 18TH / 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT PLAQUETTES

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