Beschreibung:

Miers (John, 1756-1821). Portrait of John Foxcroft, circa 1785, oval head and shoulders silhouette portrait, painted in black on plaster, profile to right, somewhat scratched, verso with original artist's label “Perfect Likenesses in miniature profile, taken by J.Miers, LEEDS, and reduced on a plan entirely new ...", mount aperture 85 x 70 mm (3 3/8 x 2 3/4 ins), period ebonised wood frame with inset oval gilt metal surround, and hanging loop, glazed, frame verso with clear plastic cover taped at edges, and 20th century ink manuscript label detailing the sitter, overall size 15 x 12.5 cm, together with English School, Portrait of Eliza Talbot (c.1768-1855), circa 1790, oval head and shoulders portrait miniature, watercolour on paper, few light foxing spots, very slightly cockled, verso with later pencil annotation '...Eliza Talbot afterwards Mrs Lister Kaye', mount aperture 85 x 68 m (3 3/8 x 2 5/8 ins), period ebonised wood frame with inset oval gilt metal surround, and hanging loop, glazed, verso with mordern card covering, overall size 15 x 12.25 cm, plus another oval head and shoulders silhouette portrait, early 19th century, painted in black, grey and blue on paper, of a fashionable lady in a bonnet, profile to right, mount aperture 85 x 70 mm (3 3/8 x 2 3/4 ins), verso with partly illegible pencil annotation 'Polly Bertroot'?, period framed and glazed (as above), overall size 15 x 12 cm (Quantity: 3) Provenance: The Robertson-Glasgow family of Hinton Charterhouse, by descent. These items have all remained within the same family from the time they were produced, some 242 years. John Foxcroft, born in 1757, was the son of Edward Foxcroft, and brother to Eliza and Frances. Eliza (born Elizabeth) Talbot was the daughter of Colonel Richard Talbot, and his wife Margaret (nee O'Reilly), 1st Baroness Talbot of Malahide, Dublin. Eliza first married George Waters Mellifont in 1796, and then in 1844 she married Ellis Cunliffe-Lister-Kaye (his third wife).