A Woman said to be Anne, Countess of Lauderdale
Portrait Miniature
ca.1688 (painted)
ca.1688 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, half-length, resting head on right hand, turned slightly to front and looking to left. Features in soft, distinct stipples of brown and sanguine with some pale grey shading; black and white highlights in the eyes; hair in pale brown wash, lined with darker colour and with some pale gouache lights; all on a pale creamy carnation ground; chemise in white over pale brown; dress worked in browns with pale grey lights; background a brown wash, cross-hatched with darker lines and some pale gouache; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century silver locket, the convex back soldered to sides with a deep outer channel, stepping inward with a narrow channel to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its rounded and polished edges; the hanger of square section wire with a central groove, bifurcating at the back into twin diminishing spirals of seven-and-a-halfturns.
Frame: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century silver locket, the convex back soldered to sides with a deep outer channel, stepping inward with a narrow channel to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its rounded and polished edges; the hanger of square section wire with a central groove, bifurcating at the back into twin diminishing spirals of seven-and-a-halfturns.
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Title | A Woman said to be Anne, Countess of Lauderdale (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Charles Beale. Woman said to be Anne Countess of Lauderdale, watercolour on vellum, ca.1688. |
Physical description | Portrait of a woman, half-length, resting head on right hand, turned slightly to front and looking to left. Features in soft, distinct stipples of brown and sanguine with some pale grey shading; black and white highlights in the eyes; hair in pale brown wash, lined with darker colour and with some pale gouache lights; all on a pale creamy carnation ground; chemise in white over pale brown; dress worked in browns with pale grey lights; background a brown wash, cross-hatched with darker lines and some pale gouache; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century silver locket, the convex back soldered to sides with a deep outer channel, stepping inward with a narrow channel to the bezel, which holds the shallowly convex glass by its rounded and polished edges; the hanger of square section wire with a central groove, bifurcating at the back into twin diminishing spirals of seven-and-a-halfturns. |
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Content description | Portrait of a woman resting her head on her right hand. |
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Credit line | Purchased with funds from the Stephenson Bequest |
Object history | Provenance: At Christie's 8 June 1937, lot 4, paired with Cat. No. ISO, and assumed to share the same earlier provenance. |
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Accession number | P.94-1937 |
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Record created | July 10, 2003 |
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