Sir Samuel Morland, Bart
Portrait Miniature
1660-1661 (painted)
1660-1661 (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, turned to right and looking to front; a blue sky in the right background. Features delicately hatched in pale brown and sanguine with very small touches of grey, blue shadows, a touch of white in the sitter's left eye, on a thick creamy carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and heightened with opaque colours; collar and sleeves in white over grey wash; jerkin in brown wash with bronzing and buttons in gold; background an opaque brown wash with blue sky and grey cloud hatched over with blue washes; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Object details
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| Title | Sir Samuel Morland, Bart (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum, put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of Sir Samuel Morland. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, 1660-1661. |
| Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, turned to right and looking to front; a blue sky in the right background. Features delicately hatched in pale brown and sanguine with very small touches of grey, blue shadows, a touch of white in the sitter's left eye, on a thick creamy carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and heightened with opaque colours; collar and sleeves in white over grey wash; jerkin in brown wash with bronzing and buttons in gold; background an opaque brown wash with blue sky and grey cloud hatched over with blue washes; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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| Content description | Portrait of a man, turned to the right and wearing a high collar. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Sir Samuel / Morland / Cooper' (Inscribed on the back in graphite by a nineteenth-century hand
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mrs A. B. Woodcroft |
| Object history | Provenance: Lord Northwick, his sale Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, 5 August 1859, lot 725, bt Woodcroft, £6.16d.6s; bequeathed to the Museum by Mrs A BWoodcroft, 1903. |
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| Accession number | 481-1903 |
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| Record created | July 3, 2003 |
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