Albin Roberts Burt, (1783-1842) - Two early 19th Century oval portrait miniatures on card, each depicting a lady (probably related), one facing to dexter, wearing white mob cap, signed in ink verso "Painted by A R Burt Worcester October 181*" (1813?), the other to sinister, with tied curly hair and bead necklace, unsigned, both 7cm x 5.5cm, in similar ebonised frames (2)

Albin Roberts Burt trained initially as an engraver under Robert Threw and Benjamin Smith, before undertaking a signed 1802 portrait on silk of Lord Nelson (sold Charles Miller Ltd, 8th November 2016, lot 71). A mirror-image print of Lord Nelson was also used by Flight, Barr & Barr for a commemorative jug in 1805 (sold Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury. 8th September 2021 lot 219.

Burt's connections to Lord Nelson are well-recorded. His brother, Henry Frederick, was Nelson's secretary, and Albin Burt himself was a close friend of both Sir William and Emma Hamilton. In the footnotes to the aforementioned Bonhams lot, two of the Burt's children are recorded to have been named Nelson Burt (d. 1822) and Emma Hamilton Burt.

There is a some resemblance in the facial features of our sitter(s) to a known portrait of the artist's wife, Sarah Burt (nee Jones) with her children, sold Bonhams, 19th November 2008, lot 112.