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An Unknown Man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford

Portrait Miniature
late 1650s (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

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Object type
TitleAn Unknown Man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour on vellum, put down on a leaf from a table-book
Brief description
Portrait miniature of an unknown man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, late 1650s.
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 44mm
  • Width: 36mm
Dimensions taken from John Murdoch Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
Content description
Oval portrait miniature of a man with receeding hair.
Styles
Production typeUnique
Credit line
Given by Mrs Emma Joseph
Object history
Provenance: Perhaps as given by Foster 1914-16, below; S S Joseph: Mrs Emma Joseph, by whom presented to the Museum, May 1941.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • 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.
Collection
Accession number
P.21-1941

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Record createdJuly 3, 2003
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