The 17th century court in miniature
Only the day after a specialist sale at Bonhams, the June 29 auction at Strides of Chichester included two 3 x 2in (7 x 5.5cm) watercolour-on-vellum portraits by greats of the Commonwealth/Carolean age that trumped anything seen on Bond Street.
The cataloguing may have been a little perfunctory, and the estimates wide of the mark, but these ne…