Sir Francis Nethersole
Portrait Miniature
1619 (painted)
1619 (painted)
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Portrait, bust, slightly to right and looking to front; wearing a ruff collar. Features stippled and hatched in brown, dark gummy grey and sanguine, with some yellow in the facial hair and white highlights in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in very dark gummed grey over pale brown wash, stippled at the hair-line; ruff in impasted white over bare vellum and grey wash; doublet modelled in dark grey over brown wash, hatched in close horizontal lines of metallic gold; background a grey wash shaded with darker colour especially to left and lower right; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt oval locket, convex back held in a bezel formed from the strip sides, which have a deep and wide channel flaring to the front bezel, which holds the flat bevelled glass; the hanger of tear-drop form, of D-section bifurcating into diminishing spirals of flat wire of four turns.
Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt oval locket, convex back held in a bezel formed from the strip sides, which have a deep and wide channel flaring to the front bezel, which holds the flat bevelled glass; the hanger of tear-drop form, of D-section bifurcating into diminishing spirals of flat wire of four turns.
Object details
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| Title | Sir Francis Nethersole (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of Sir Francis Nethersole, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Oliver, 1619. |
| Physical description | Portrait, bust, slightly to right and looking to front; wearing a ruff collar. Features stippled and hatched in brown, dark gummy grey and sanguine, with some yellow in the facial hair and white highlights in the eyes, on a pale carnation ground; hair in very dark gummed grey over pale brown wash, stippled at the hair-line; ruff in impasted white over bare vellum and grey wash; doublet modelled in dark grey over brown wash, hatched in close horizontal lines of metallic gold; background a grey wash shaded with darker colour especially to left and lower right; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: Nineteenth-century silver-gilt oval locket, convex back held in a bezel formed from the strip sides, which have a deep and wide channel flaring to the front bezel, which holds the flat bevelled glass; the hanger of tear-drop form, of D-section bifurcating into diminishing spirals of flat wire of four turns. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the Murray Bequest |
| Object history | Provenance: Christie’s 9 July 1913, lot 77, bt. Durlacher; H J Pfungst, sold at Christie’s 14 June 1917, lot 60, bt Durlacher for the Museum with funds from the Capt. H B Murray Bequest. |
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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.6-1917 |
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| Record created | July 8, 2003 |
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