Estimated at just £60-100, a pair of Georgian portrait miniatures sold online for £2900 at Amersham Auctions (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Buckinghamshire on January 6.
Painted in watercolour on ivory, one (with a significant crack to the right of the image) depicts a soldier in the red and gilt braid frock coat of a British army office, the other a woman with ringlets in her hair who clutches a gold guard necklace.
Although not mentioned in the lot description, the photos that accompanied it showed that both images were signed on the backing card for William Wood of Cork Street, London, with the male subject identified as John Jebb Esq.