The Hon. John Stafford-Howard
Portrait Miniature
1687-1695 (painted)
1687-1695 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing front and wearing a long wig and neckcloth. Features stippled in grey and sanguine, with touches of yellow and blue and some white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker browns and black and with some gouache lights, over the carnation; cravat in white with pale grey over an off-white wash; robe in opaque black; background in opaque dark brown, hatched with darker colour to the left of sitter's head, and paler colour centre right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: A modern gilt rim of curved section with flanged sides, creating a rebate for the glass; for fitting to a velvet -covered board, but altered for independent display by the attachment of a small loop hanger at the top.
Frame: A modern gilt rim of curved section with flanged sides, creating a rebate for the glass; for fitting to a velvet -covered board, but altered for independent display by the attachment of a small loop hanger at the top.
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Title | The Hon. John Stafford-Howard (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of the Hon. John Stafford-Howard, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Cross, 1687-1695. |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing front and wearing a long wig and neckcloth. Features stippled in grey and sanguine, with touches of yellow and blue and some white heightening in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched and stippled with darker browns and black and with some gouache lights, over the carnation; cravat in white with pale grey over an off-white wash; robe in opaque black; background in opaque dark brown, hatched with darker colour to the left of sitter's head, and paler colour centre right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: A modern gilt rim of curved section with flanged sides, creating a rebate for the glass; for fitting to a velvet -covered board, but altered for independent display by the attachment of a small loop hanger at the top. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing front and wearing a long wig and neckcloth. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'PC' (Signed, centre right, in black) |
Credit line | Purchased with funds from the Murray Bequest |
Object history | Provenance: Presumably by descent in the family; purchased for £50 from Sir Henry Stafford Jerningham, Bart, October 1923. |
Production | This miniature is catalogue number 171 in John Murdoch “Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum” (1997). |
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Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. |
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Accession number | P.57-1923 |
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Record created | July 3, 2003 |
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