Mrs Vrybergen
Portrait Miniature
ca.1690 (painted)
ca.1690 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, half-length, to front and wearing a headdress; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in soft brown hatches blended with blue and white, with black in the eyes and red in the lips, on a pale off-white carnation ground; hair washed in pale brown gouache over pale brown; head-dress in white and greenish brown; dress in a solid blue wash, with darker colour and white for the lights; mantle in grey gouache, lined in red and with the lights in pale pink hatches; lace at the breast in impasted white over grey; background in brown wash, darker to the left, pale to the right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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Title | Mrs Vrybergen (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of Mrs Marinus van Vrybergen, watercolour on vellum by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, ca.1690. |
Physical description | Portrait of a woman, half-length, to front and wearing a headdress; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in soft brown hatches blended with blue and white, with black in the eyes and red in the lips, on a pale off-white carnation ground; hair washed in pale brown gouache over pale brown; head-dress in white and greenish brown; dress in a solid blue wash, with darker colour and white for the lights; mantle in grey gouache, lined in red and with the lights in pale pink hatches; lace at the breast in impasted white over grey; background in brown wash, darker to the left, pale to the right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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Content description | Portrait of a woman, facing to front and wearing a headdress. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Mrs Vryberge' (Inscribed in metal-point (?) on the back) |
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 | 455-1892 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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