The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon in the uniform of the 5th Black Watch sold Medium Details: Ink and 23ct

Medium Details: Ink and 23ct Red gold leaf on 640gsm smooth watercolour paper

Ghiglia spent most of the 1960s in California

as in looks and costume she is deliciously timeless

An original illustration for a publication or poster by an unknown American artist

’ from 1973 to 1981

The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon in the uniform of the 5th Black Watch sold Medium Details: Ink and 23ctThis is somewhat outside our usual sphere, but it appeals at several levels. It is of course a superb bit of watercolour, technically faultless and effortlessly stretching Mabels talents as a miniature painter to a more domestic scale. It is a good military portrait of an officer in the uniform kilt of the Black Watch. Mainly it is an interesting piece of British Royal memorabilia as a portrait of The Late Queens great uncle and her cousin who later