Lot 253: JOHANN GEORG PAUL FISCHER (1786-1875)

Oberforstmeister von Hanstein, facing right in dark grey-brown coat, black waistcoat with gold buttons and black stock, forward-combed brown hair and sideburns signed with initials and dated 'PF Londo[n] '24' (lower right) oval, 31/4 in. (83 mm.) high, gilt-metal fausse-montre frame with glazed reverse LITERATURE L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 256. EXHIBITION Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus nieders„chsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 533, illustrated (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).