Portrait miniature of Lady Carew, watercolour on vellum, painted by Samuel Cooper, 1655-1660.

Portrait, half-length, to front and looking to right; the sitter is wearing a pearl necklace and has drapery over her right shoulder; there is a landscape in the right background. Features firmly hatched in brown and sanguine, with a little blue-grey in the shadow and touches of gouache in the highlights, on a thick creamy carnation ground; hair washed and hatched in browns; the dress in transparent lake, hatched and modelled in darker colours; the cloak in opaque grey and white; background a landscape washed and hatched in gouache; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Frame
Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim of V-section holding a convex glass in a rebate at the front; the back closed by a toothed copper strip.

Oval miniature portrait of a woman wearing a pearl necklace.

Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce

Provenance: According to the label (above), the Earls of Sussex. Their main seat was at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire, not at Welling borough (also Northamptonshire) nor at Wellingsborough (Leicestershire). Henry Yelverton, 3rd Earl of Sussex, was born on 7 July 1728 and died on 22 April 1799, when the earldom became extinct. Between 1801 and 1843 the sixth son of George III was known as the Duke of Sussex, and the earldom was subsequently revived in 1874 in favour of Victoria's third son, Prince Arthur. This history makes the reading of the date in the inscription preferably 1801 rather than 1861. There is no record, however, of a Wellenborough House sale of the effects of the 3rd Earl (who was, incidentally, succeeded by his grandson, the gay dandy Lord Grey de Ruthyn). Acquired by Alexander Dyce, presumably from the retail trade, and by him bequeathed to the Museum, 1869.

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