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Wigs on the Green has dated this Miniature Portrait Painting to the Georgian era.
He spent his adult life in Italy as a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was said to be abstemious, wealthy and was 82 years of age when he died in 1807.
Henry is shown here as a boy wearing an armoured breastplate over a white lace stock, a leather strap running over his shoulder with a glimpse of a royal blue cloak around his other shoulder. Painted in watercolour on card or vellum, the portrait resides in its original 14 caret gold frame.
Framed Size: 34 x 30mm
Wigs on the Green has dated this Miniature Portrait Painting to the Georgian era.
Small portraiture of character & historical interest
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Portrait of Benedict Henry Stuart
