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A Man, called Richard Price

Portrait Miniature
1670-1673 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right, looking to front and wearing a patterned lace neckcloth and a curled wig. Features in brown and sanguine with some black, with blue-grey and blue for the shadows, and yellow with white heightening, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and touched with darker, colour especially in the curls, and with touches of pale gouache heightening; cravat in pale grey, modelled with darker colour and white; mantle in brown with gold mixed into the pigment and heightened further with gold; robe in blue, modelled with black and pale grey; background to the left a dense, dark brown wash, and to the right a landscape and sky in opaque blue, grey, white, green and ochre; on vellum put down on modern card.

Frame: Seventeenth-century gold locket, the convex back and deeply grooved sides flaring out to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of tear-drop form made from wire of squared section, channelled down the middle, bifurcating into a double loop down the back of the locket and rising as a flat ribbon to form two diminishing spirals of six turns. A nineteenth-century engraved inscription on the back: Richard Price Esq.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Man, called Richard Price (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour on vellum put down on modern card
Brief description
Portrait miniature of a man, called Richard Price, watercolour on vellum by Thomas Flatman, 1670-1673.
Physical description
Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right, looking to front and wearing a patterned lace neckcloth and a curled wig. Features in brown and sanguine with some black, with blue-grey and blue for the shadows, and yellow with white heightening, on a very pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and touched with darker, colour especially in the curls, and with touches of pale gouache heightening; cravat in pale grey, modelled with darker colour and white; mantle in brown with gold mixed into the pigment and heightened further with gold; robe in blue, modelled with black and pale grey; background to the left a dense, dark brown wash, and to the right a landscape and sky in opaque blue, grey, white, green and ochre; on vellum put down on modern card.

Frame: Seventeenth-century gold locket, the convex back and deeply grooved sides flaring out to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its bevelled edge; the hanger of tear-drop form made from wire of squared section, channelled down the middle, bifurcating into a double loop down the back of the locket and rising as a flat ribbon to form two diminishing spirals of six turns. A nineteenth-century engraved inscription on the back: Richard Price Esq.
Dimensions
  • Height: 70mm
  • Width: 58mm
Dimensions taken from John Murdoch Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
Content description
Portrait of a man wearing a wig and patterned lace neckcloth, a landscape in the right background.
Styles
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting
Object history
Provenance: George Salting, acquired by him from an unrecorded source, and by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1910.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
Collection
Accession number
P.107-1910

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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