Lot 36: John Hoskins (British, circa 1590-1664)

A Lady, wearing green water-silk dress with white underslip, patterned silver-grey cloak over her left shoulder, pearl necklace and further smaller pearls decorating the bun of her hair worn in curls. Watercolour on vellum, signed on obverse with monogram in gold and dated I.H./ 1646 , set in a turned ebonised fruitwood case. Oval, 70mm ( 2 3/4in) high Provenance: The Ashcroft Collection The M. Papier Collection, no.172 Sotheby's, 7 May 1946, lot 58 Exhibited: Brussels Exhibition, 1912, catalogue p.184, no.216 On loan to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1924-1939 Exhibition of British Art, London, 1934, catalogue no.953, ill. pl.203, no.1088 Literature: Basil Long; British Miniaturists , 1966, p.226 (described as 'particularly good') Basil Long; The Connoisseur , July 1926, p.133, pl.2 (Long here describes her hair in Crawshaw's words ' Tresses that wear/ Jewels but to declare/ How much themselves more precious are '