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An Unknown Man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford
Cooper, Samuel - Enlarge image
An Unknown Man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford
- Object:
Portrait miniature
- Place of origin:
England (painted)
- Date:
late 1650s (painted)
- Artist/Maker:
Cooper, Samuel (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Watercolour on vellum, put down on a leaf from a table-book
- Credit Line:
Given by Mrs Emma Joseph
- Museum number:
P.21-1941
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level F, case RMC, shelf 1, box F
Physical description
Portrait, head and shoulders, turned to right and looking to front. Features in short, free hatches of brown and sanguine, shadowed with blue-grey and heavily worked and heightened with gouache, on a yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched in darker brown with the lights in gouache; costume in dark grey wash, hatched in black; the collar in grey wash heightened with white and with some grey shadowing; background partly a solid dark wash, partly sky in washes of grey and blue; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame
Evidently re-framed by the Josephs. as Cat. Nos 6S, 72 and 94; packed out with fragmentary trade cards.
Place of Origin
England (painted)
Date
late 1650s (painted)
Artist/maker
Cooper, Samuel (artist)
Materials and Techniques
Watercolour on vellum, put down on a leaf from a table-book
Dimensions
Height: 44 mm, Width: 36 mm
Object history note
Provenance: Perhaps as given by Foster 1914-16, below; S S Joseph: Mrs Emma Joseph, by whom presented to the Museum, May 1941.
Descriptive line
Portrait miniature of an unknown man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, late 1650s.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1941, London: HMSO, 1954.
Materials
Vellum; Watercolour
Techniques
Painting
Subjects depicted
Man
Categories
Portraits; Paintings
Production Type
Unique
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection