Katherine Bruce, Mrs Dysart
Portrait Miniature
1649 (painted)
1649 (painted)
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Half-length portrait, turned to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls; in the left background is a view of Ham House. Features stippled in blue and grey, with some yellow/brown and white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in long strokes of brown wash hatched and stippled with brown, yellow and grey-blue over the carnation; pearls in blue-grey with gummy white highlights; costume in blue wash stippled with darker colour and grey, and with some gouache heightening; chemise modelled in grey over white; foliage in transparent washes stippled with darker colour; other landscape elements in wash stippled with transparent and opaque colours; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: When acquired, a dealer's gilded wooden frame of perhaps c.1900, now replaced for display at Ham with a brown stained wooden frame, originally fitted out by the Museum in 1894 to show The Pocket Book (see S Cooper, Cat. No. 87), and since cut down.
Frame: When acquired, a dealer's gilded wooden frame of perhaps c.1900, now replaced for display at Ham with a brown stained wooden frame, originally fitted out by the Museum in 1894 to show The Pocket Book (see S Cooper, Cat. No. 87), and since cut down.
Object details
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| Title | Katherine Bruce, Mrs Dysart (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of Katherine Bruce, Mrs Dysart, with a view of Ham House, watercolour on vellum, painted by Alexander Marshal, 1649. |
| Physical description | Half-length portrait, turned to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls; in the left background is a view of Ham House. Features stippled in blue and grey, with some yellow/brown and white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in long strokes of brown wash hatched and stippled with brown, yellow and grey-blue over the carnation; pearls in blue-grey with gummy white highlights; costume in blue wash stippled with darker colour and grey, and with some gouache heightening; chemise modelled in grey over white; foliage in transparent washes stippled with darker colour; other landscape elements in wash stippled with transparent and opaque colours; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: When acquired, a dealer's gilded wooden frame of perhaps c.1900, now replaced for display at Ham with a brown stained wooden frame, originally fitted out by the Museum in 1894 to show The Pocket Book (see S Cooper, Cat. No. 87), and since cut down. |
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| Object history | Provenance: According to MS notes by C F Bell in his copy of Long 192 9, this and a companion piece, a portrait of Charles II after Hanneman, were from the sale of the possessions of Viscount Ashbrook and had been at Castle Durrow in Kilkenny; they were bought by a London dealer and sold c.1922 to Andrew Mackay (the cataloguer of the Buccleuch Collection) who had them photographed; thence apparently by descent, until bought for the Museum, Christie's 27 November 1979, lot 70. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. |
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| Accession number | HH.2-1979 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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