PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, 1870
Oil · Canvas
Whyte's · Oct 19, 2020€1,600 ≈ $1,886 ≈ £1,449Sign up free to see priceImage courtesy Whyte's
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HAPPY AS A KING
Margaret Allen (Irish, 1832–1914) · 1876
€2,800 hammer
≈ $3,300≈ £2,537
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on board”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed lower right; inscribed on reverse ['Happy as a King / A Portrait by Margaret Allen / 12 Westland Row']; with label of Charles Robertson & Co., London on
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 24 x 20in. (60.96 x 50.80cm)
- Auction house
- Whyte's
- Sale
- Important Irish & International Art (851)
- Date
- October 19, 2020
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lot
- 96
- Estimate
- €3,000 – €5,000 (≈ $3,536 – $5,893) (≈ £2,718 – £4,530)
- Source
- Auction house whytes.ie ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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