Mr Wignall, Painter
Portrait Miniature
ca.1690 (painted)
ca.1690 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, half-length, turned to left, looking to front and wearing a neckcloth and long wig; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features freely hatched in brown and sanguine, with grey-blue shadowing, black for the eyes and touches of white, on a pale carnation ground; hair in washes of grey gouache and brown heightened with ochre; cravat in white shaded with grey and brown; robe in brown wash, modelled with darker colour and with the lights in ochre; background a solid dark brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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Title | Mr Wignall, Painter (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of Mr. Wignall, watercolour on vellum by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, ca.1690. |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, half-length, turned to left, looking to front and wearing a neckcloth and long wig; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features freely hatched in brown and sanguine, with grey-blue shadowing, black for the eyes and touches of white, on a pale carnation ground; hair in washes of grey gouache and brown heightened with ochre; cravat in white shaded with grey and brown; robe in brown wash, modelled with darker colour and with the lights in ochre; background a solid dark brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man, turned to left and wearing a long wig and neckcloth. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Mr.Wignal Painter' (Inscribed in graphite, on the back (originally Mrs. was written but the 's' was deleted)) |
Object history | Provenance: Presumably acquired from Cooper's estate by the Rosses, or perhaps by Priestman (see Rosse, Cat. No. 143) and perhaps in the Michael Rosse sale, 2 April 1723; eventually purchased by Edwin [Durning] Lawrence before 1862, and sold by him to the Museum for £525 in 1892. |
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Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London: The Stationery Office in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997.
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Accession number | 453-1892 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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