An interesting collection of ten relief moulded profile portraits, mostly in wax including three examples bearing signatures for Issac Gosset (British, 1713-1799) Late 18th and 19th century Comprising a red wax portrait of Admiral Viscount Keppel, 1725-86, cracked, attributed to J. R. Poulsen (1821) in glazed oval convex frame, a wax portrait of Lord Chatham, in glazed oval convex frame, a wax portrait of Mary Bater (52) in glazed oval frame, a wax portrait of Sir Hans Sloane, signed L.F.F. sec B No. 4, in glazed maple rectangular frame, a portrait of a young girl bearing signature for Isaac Gosset and dated 1776, a wax portrait of a gentleman, bearing signature for Isaac Gosset in glazed oval convex frame, a portrait of a gentleman in 17th dress, possibly depicting Cromwell (?), damaged, in glazed oval convex frame, a coloured wax portrait of a gentleman in a red jacket, cracked, in a circular glazed convex frame, a composition, perhaps plaster, portrait of a gentleman, perhaps depicting Lord Byron, depicted on a blue tinted ground, in glazed oval convex frame, a wax portrait of a boy modelled full face, bearing signature for Isaac Gosset and dated 1777/78, mounted in a circular hinged glazed case, the first, 18cm high, the second, 19cm high, the third, 18cm high, the fourth, 21cm high, the fifth, 15cm high, the sixth, 14cm high, the seventh, 18.5cm high, the eighth, 15.5cm high, the ninth, 16cm high, the last, 13cm diameter (10) Footnotes: Isaac Gosset (British, 1713-1799) was a Huguenot wax modeller active in London during the mid-eighteenth century. Born in St Helier, Jersey, to a family that had fled Normandy following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, he was initially trained as a carver and frame-maker. He worked with his uncle, Matthew Gosset, a sculptor and wax modeller, and later collaborated with his brother Jacob in supplying giltwood frames to leading artists such as William Hogarth, Jacopo Amigoni and Allan Ramsay. Gosset was particularly noted for his ability to model wax portrait medallions rapidly and directly from sittings, a practice that distinguished him from many contemporaries who relied on existing images. His portraits were widely praised for their accuracy of likeness and were subsequently reproduced through casts supplied to manufacturers including Wedgwood and James Tassie. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing