Product details: Portrait Miniature #PM09
A 17th CENTURY ROYAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE ON VELLUM OF CHARLES II BY PETER CROSSE (C. 1645-1724) IN ITS ORIGINAL GOLD RUBY AND DIAMOND SET FRAME. SIGNED

Age: CIRCA 17th CENTURY

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The present miniature dates from 1680 and the technique is unequivocally Peter Crosse. However, the gold cross symbol used as a signature is extremely rare. Another example of this can be found on a miniature by Crosse sold at Christie's on 15th June 1976, lot 111.
William Frederick, Duke of Glucester & Edinburgh, presented thsi miniature to Mrs Blackburne of Hale in 1806, when he was in command of the northern district during the time of the riots in Lancashire.
Provenance: William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester & Edinburgh & Earl of Connaught Given to Mrs Blackburne Hale, 1806
Literature: Harriet Elizabeth Blackburne, Hale Hale Hall with Notes on the Family of Ireland Blackburne, 1881, p.42

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