Exquisitely fine portrait miniature of a gentlemen in a red jacket and yellow waistcoat with fur trim,lace stock and a powdered wig 'en queue'. The powder from the wig can be seen on the shoulder of the jacket.
Initialled I.B.in Roman Capitals and dated 1773.
Set to a gold bracelet clasp.
John Bogle was a Scottish miniature painter exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1772 to 1794.
He painted a miniature of the novelist Fanny Burney in June 1783, and in 1790 he accompanied her to the trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall.
Daphne Foskett writes of Bogle "his colouring is soft,and he painted with a minute stippling which, particularly in the treatment of the hair, produces a curiously woolly effect when viewed under a lens."
His works are included in the V and A and British Museum collections.