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English School, 18th Century Portrait miniature of an Officer of the 8th King's Royal Irish Light Dragoons, c.1785, in a blue uniform with a red collar and white facings, the reverse with plaited hair and interlaced initials "HH" watercolour on ivory, in a gold coloured and blue enamel frame 4.50 x 2.90cm (2 x 1in)
We are grateful to Christopher Bryant for his assistance with the catalogue entry.
Stuck down to card. Few losses right of the sitter's head and right of his chest. Loose in its frame.

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