Hervé, Charles II (McKechnie Section 6)

See Section One for main entry, also Prosopographus, the Automaton Artist, in this Section

Graves records twenty-eight 'portraits' sent in to the Royal Academy and one portrait sent in to Suffolk Street, 1828-58. Some details of these portraits are given in Section One, since they throw light on the artist's identity. One, a half-length miniature of a boy, painted on a rectangular piece of card, signed 'C. Hervé' and housed in a fitted case, was sold at the rooms of Sotheby and Company, London, on 14 July 1969. Hervé is recorded by Foskett, who does not mention whether his miniatures were painted on ivory. I have seen no work on ivory by Hervé, and I think it likely that all these exhibits were painted on card.