Description in Auction Catalogue:
"An unfinished portrait of King George IV (1762-1830) when Prince of Wales, in red coat with blue collar. On ivory. Oval, 60 mm. high, later silver frame with paste surround and tied ribbon surmount. A finished miniature by Jeremiah Meyer which corresponds to the present lot is in the British Royal Collection, see R. Walker, op. cit., p. 131, no. 258, illustrated, and a further version is at Calenberg."

Senare ram av silver med paste (folierat glas).

Litteratur:
R. Walker, The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1992, p. 131. 3/1-22 Sir William John Newton was one of the leading British miniaturists in the first half of the 19th century, with his exceptional technical skill. He is said to be the first to have produced large ivory plates by employing a veneer technique. Newton was appointed court miniaturist to William IV, but was outshone in the Victorian era by Sir William Charles Ross, who was the Queen’s favourite. Newton was not previously represented in the collection.