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Lot description
John Miers (English, 17561821). An original late 18th Century silhouette portrait, or "shade," painted in left profile, of George III, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain (1738-1820). Painted on white enamel in a delicate hand, with shades that capture the enigmatic monarch in shadow. Presented in a decorative metal frame with a royal crown surmounting the encircling relief gilt bronze metal oval decoration. The back includes an original description of the piece and its creation process. (A similar description from 1785 reads, in part, that the process preserves the most exact Symmetry and animated expression of the Features, much Superior to any other Method. Time of sitting one minute. N.B. He keeps the original Shades, and can supply those he has once taken with any number of Copies. Those who have Shades by them may have them reduced to any Size, and dressd in the present taste.) The artist, John Miers, was the most famous profilist or painter of silhouettes in Georgian and Regency Britain. Good condition with some wear and minor loss to frame.