Lot 270: WILHELM ANDREAS MÜLLER (DANISH, 1733-1816)

WILHELM ANDREAS MÜLLER (DANISH, 1733-1816)
A pair of miniatures: a gentleman in brown frock-coat, green waistcoat, black stock, powdered wig worn en queue, seated on a red upholstered chair, at a table, holding a letter in his right hand, an ink stand and quill on the table; she, in white silk dress with bow at corsage, pearls, upswept powdered hair decorated with pearls and plumes, seated on a green upholstered chair, crocheting, at a desk set with a vase of flowers
on ivory
ovals, 3 1/8 in. (81 mm.) high, gilt-metal frames with wavy reeded surrounds (2)

With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., London (illustrated in colour in The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair 1996 Handbook, p. 231, described as King Christian VII and Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark).