Silver Filigree framed Portrait Miniature.

 

Late 17th Century Portrait Miniature in a Silver Filigree Frame.

Attributed to JACQUES-ANTOINE ARLAUD (1668-1746).

With the Limner Company November 2024.

https://www.portraitminiature.com/177-arlaud-lennox

Probably Charles Lennox, first duke of Richmond, first duke of Lennox, and duke of Aubigny in the French nobility (1672–1723), wearing black gown/doublet with lace cravat and red ribbon, black hat with red and white feathers; c.1685

Watercolour on vellum

 Oval, 2 ¾ in. (70 mm) high

 Silver frame with fillagree border, the reverse with cipher ‘ADR’ and ducal coronet on a leather panel

 

Cipher: ADR – standing for Aubigny, Duke (of) Richmond. 

Circa 1682 (when in France with his mother).

 

Provenance: Christie's, London, 10 July 1984, lot 54 (unidentified artist and sitter).