Portrait of a Georgian Gentleman 

Wearing a red coat and white stock, his hair tied in a queue.

Painted on ivory and initialled by the artist Thomas Hazlehurst (lower left); within a gold coloured metal frame. To the reverse a truly fine arrangement of the sitter’s (?) hair laid onto opaline glass centred with a blue glass oval with the initials WJB formed of tiny graduated seed pearls; dating to circa 1790.

2.75 in x 2.25 in exc. suspension.

The ivory registered in accordance with the act.

Thomas Hazlehurst c.1740-1821 was born and worked in Liverpool as a miniaturist, around 1760-1818, his address in 1793 being 9 Rodney Street in that city. He exhibited at the Society for Promoting Painting and Design and at the Liverpool Academy.

Examples of his work are held in the V&A, whilst the local History Department of the City of Liverpool Libraries holds a collection of some 387 paintings of Lancashire flora painted by the artist.