Lot 144: A Gentleman, wearing blue coat, white waistcoat, chemise and stock

A Gentleman, wearing blue coat, white waistcoat, chemise and stock. Watercolour on ivory, signed on the obverse with the artist's cursive, E within a heart-shaped vignette, the reverse signed and dated, J. D. Engleheart/ Pinxit 1814/ Old Newman Street/ London, gilt-metal frame. Rectangular, 81mm (3 3/16in) high

Basil Long records one instance of the artist framing his cursive E within a heart of gold (see B. Long, British Miniaturists, 1929, p.143).