A Soldier, called the last Viscount Irwin
Portrait Miniature
late 1640s (painted)
late 1640s (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slighlty to right and looking to front; the sitter is wearing armour. Features in short bold hatches of brown and sanguine, with blue-grey shadow and some white heightening, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown washes, hatched with darker colour and heightened with gouache; armour in opaque grey washes heightened with white; collar in pale grey wash, modelled in white; background a thick brown wash passing into grey with white lights to right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Twentieth-century copper-gilt rim of plain strip, the convex glass fitted into a rebate; a plain brass backplate; the hanger of solid cast cosse de pois type, combined with flat wire spirals of four turns; packed out with a card printed: ... ECARY,/ ... d Goldsm ...
Frame: Twentieth-century copper-gilt rim of plain strip, the convex glass fitted into a rebate; a plain brass backplate; the hanger of solid cast cosse de pois type, combined with flat wire spirals of four turns; packed out with a card printed: ... ECARY,/ ... d Goldsm ...
Object details
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| Title | A Soldier, called the last Viscount Irwin (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of a solider, called the last Viscount Irwin, watercolour on vellum, painted by Samuel Cooper, late 1640s. |
| Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slighlty to right and looking to front; the sitter is wearing armour. Features in short bold hatches of brown and sanguine, with blue-grey shadow and some white heightening, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown washes, hatched with darker colour and heightened with gouache; armour in opaque grey washes heightened with white; collar in pale grey wash, modelled in white; background a thick brown wash passing into grey with white lights to right; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Twentieth-century copper-gilt rim of plain strip, the convex glass fitted into a rebate; a plain brass backplate; the hanger of solid cast cosse de pois type, combined with flat wire spirals of four turns; packed out with a card printed: ... ECARY,/ ... d Goldsm ... |
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| Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
| Object history | Provenance: Acquired by the Hon. F H A Wallop before 192 7 , when it was placed on loan at the V&A until 1949; given in 1933 to Alan Evans, by whom bequeathed to the National Gallery, 1974; placed on indeterminate loan at the V&A (see Appendix 3), There is some evidence in the MS guard book of the 192 7 Wallop Loan, compiled mainly by Basil Long, that the miniature may once have been in the possession of L C Cary, the Master of Falkland, (1) who told A C Stokes in January |
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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 | EVANS.10 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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