“One of the world’s greatest portrait miniature collections”
What Bonhams are billing as “one of the world’s greatest portrait miniature collections” will go on sale in their Bond Street rooms on April 22. The 175 English and Continental miniatures, which have been on loan to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for the past three years, date from the 16th to the 19th century and are estimated to fetch in excess of £1m.
Dubbed the Albion Collection, it has been assembled over 40 years by an anonymous British vendor who…