GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH 1750-1829)
Portrait miniature of Thomas Ashton, circa 1786, wearing a blue coat with silver buttons, buff waistcoat, frilled chemise and tied cravat
watercolour on ivory
gold frame, the reverse with central glazed aperture to reveal hair within blue glass surround
oval, 50 mm (2 in) high
PROVENANCE:
Commodore Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe CBE (1895-1990) and by descent through the family.

Listed in Engleheart's fee book of 1786: Painted 20 Feb 1786 / Paid 6 March 1786 8gns
According to family history, Thomas Ashton was a member of the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) who had their own army in India and he was killed at the battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815. He was the brother of William Ashton and great grandfather of Commodore Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe CBE (1895-1990).

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