Joshua Uhthoff by George Engleheart, signed & dated 1805.

 
Joshua Uhthoff (1786-1818) the first English Envoy at Goa, began his career in India at the age of 16.  He was the son of Henry Uhthoff, a London merchant and Mary-Anne Vanneck, daughter of Sir Joshua Vanneck.  Uhthoff left for India in 1781, serving in several posts including Commissioner for Malabar before returning to Britain in 1805. When Uhthoff left Goa, the British officers there presented him with a massive gold two-handled, cup now in the Gilbert Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum.   Uhthoff settled in Bath where he married Jane Farrer, the sister of his brother Henry's wife in 1806. They had three daughters.
 
Set in a gilt metal pendant frame with glazed reverse revealing the signature, G. Engleheart/ Pinxt/ 1805.  Additionally, the portrait is signed with a cursive E on the obverse lower right.
 
3 7/16 inches (8.6 cm) high.
 
George Engleheart (1750–1829) assuredly deserves his place as one of the greatest of the British miniaturists, and certainly the most productive.  Trained in the Royal Academy Schools and by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engleheart had a long and prolific career, leaving an account book documenting over 4800 miniatures.  He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1773-1822.
 
Literature:
     Williamson & Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829, Miniature Painter to George III. 
     1902, p. 116. Mr. Uthoff also sat for Engleheart in 1806.
 
Provenance:
     Mrs. Ormsby Hamilton, Sotheby's London, 14 June 1934, lot 105.
     Sotheby's London, 9 November 1944, lot 79.