Lot 333: Count Alfred-Guillaume-Gabriel D'Orsay (French, 1801-1852)

Count Alfred-Guillaume-Gabriel D'Orsay (French, 1801-1852)
Portrait of Theodore Edward Hook, half-length in profile; and Portrait of Henry Hallam, half-length, in profile
the first signed inscribed and dated 'A.D'Orsay/fecit/1839' (lower right) and further inscribed 'Theodore E Hook' (lower centre); the second inscribed and dated '5 Mars 1828/Naples' (lower right) and inscribed 'H - Hallam Esq' (lower centre)
pencil and wash
10 x 6½ in. (25.4 x 16.5 cm.); and smaller (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 November 1985, [part] lot 94.

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T.E. Hook (1788-1841) was a novelist and wit who edited John Bull and the New Monthly Magazine.
Henry Hallam (1777-1859) was an historian who established his reputation with A View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, 1818, followed by The Constitutional History of England, 1827.