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This superb miniature is 6 3/4 inches high. Set in the original gilt metal pendant frame with cast foliate border. It is signed Alyn Williams. 1924, lower right. 6 3/4 inches (17 cm) high. Alyn Williams, PRMS (1865-1955), served as president of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, was vice-president of the Imperial Art League and a member of the Philadelphia Society of Miniature Painters. Williams exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Salon de Paris, the R.M.S. and the United States, where he had a distinguished clientelle, 1890-1914. Williams sitters included King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. His portrait of President William Howard Taft is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. sold
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