Australian demand lifts Edmund Edgar miniature to five times estimate in Oxford auction
Edmund Edgar (c.1804-54) worked as a house painter, engraver and lithographer in London. And life may have stayed that way had he not been apprehended by a constable in Lisson Grove, Marylebone on the morning of September 12, 1825, in possession of a bag of silver, watches, jewellery and fine linen.
At his trial at the Old Bailey, he claimed to have found the swag in a ditch. Instead, he was convic…