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Find Out MoreA beautifully painted miniature in enamelA pigmented glass-like material used in powdered form and fused onto the metal surface of a piece of jewellery. More by William Essex. (English, 1784-1869) Essex was a miniature portrait painter known for crisp and detailed work in enamel, particularly portraits and paintings of animals. As a student he worked for Charles Muss who was the enamel painter to William IV. Early in his career, he painted numerous miniature reproductions of larger works by early masters (mostly landscapes, animals and genre subjects). Later, he began painting miniature portraits of live sitters. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of Art from 1818 to 1862. He was appointed miniaturist to Queen Victoria in 1839 and to Prince Albert in 1841. He also served as enamel painter to Princess Augusta of Cambridge. Amongst his pupils were acclaimed miniaturists W. B. Ford and J. W. Bailey. Works by Essex are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), National GalleryA strip of metal that is pierced with a continuing pattern, often framing vertical lozenge-shaped openings within an upper and lower band. Such strips are used by jewellers to make a claw setting for a finger ring after slicing the strip horizontally so that it becomes a series of points which hold the stone. The complete gallery is called 'closet' and the h... More of Ireland (Dublin), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio). This little masterpiece of an enamelled wily fox head is Signed W Essex 1858 on the reverse and has a 15ct62.5% pure gold (or 625 parts pure gold and 375 parts other metals). Popular during the Victorian, Edwardian and Art Deco eras but was discontinued in the mid-1930s. More gold frame with a later secure rollover catch..
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