Lot 175: Johann Baptista Van Acker (Flemish, 1794-1863)

Two miniatures portraying an Officer and a Lady, called 'Papa and Maman de Tashtere': the former, wearing dark blue coat with brass buttons and ivory standing collar, gold epaulette and black stock; the latter, wearing blue dress with frilled lace trim, multi-stranded gold and coral necklaces, the former suspending an oval pendant at her right breast, coral pendent earrings, her curling blonde hair plaited, upswept and supported with a gold-mounted coral comb. The former, signed on the obverse and dated J. Vanacker ft 1822; the latter, signed on the obverse and dated I. V. 1824; gilt-mounted on rectangular turned wood frames. Oval, 70mm (2 3/4in) high (2)