Lot 126: JOHN THOMAS BARBER BEAUMONT (1774-1841)

A gentleman called H. Pottinger, Esq., facing right in black coat and waistcoat, knotted white cravat with pleated jabot, powdered hair and sideburns; green background signed with initials 'ITB' (lower right) and signed and dated in full on the backing paper 'J T Barber Pinx t 25 Southampton S t London 1801.' oval, 2 15/16 in. (74 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the reverse centred with foliate gold initials HP on an oval opalescent milk glass plaque on a radiant guilloch‚ foil with plaited light brown hair surround NOTES For interesting new information on this painter, see D. A. Beaumont, Barber Beaumont, London, 1999.