Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1655-1660 (painted)
1655-1660 (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a high collar and a sash. Features in soft, blended hatches of brown and sanguine, with some grey in the shadows and blue in the eyes, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour and the lights in grey; collar in white, modelled in grey over the vellum; coat in opaque pale grey modelled with darker colour; the buttons in ochre and yellow-brown; the sash in gummy black wash; background in opaque brown washes; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: Probably nineteenth-century silver-gilt oval locket; the plain convex back curving to a deep rounded edge, a very shallow straight side and a bezel holding a thick, bevelled flat glass; the hanger of rectangular section channelled along its outer curve and bifurcating into tapering spirals of five turns.
Frame: Probably nineteenth-century silver-gilt oval locket; the plain convex back curving to a deep rounded edge, a very shallow straight side and a bezel holding a thick, bevelled flat glass; the hanger of rectangular section channelled along its outer curve and bifurcating into tapering spirals of five turns.
Object details
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Title | Unknown Man (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown man ,w atercolour on vellum, painted by David des Granges, 1655-1660. |
Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a high collar and a sash. Features in soft, blended hatches of brown and sanguine, with some grey in the shadows and blue in the eyes, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in brown wash, lined with darker colour and the lights in grey; collar in white, modelled in grey over the vellum; coat in opaque pale grey modelled with darker colour; the buttons in ochre and yellow-brown; the sash in gummy black wash; background in opaque brown washes; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: Probably nineteenth-century silver-gilt oval locket; the plain convex back curving to a deep rounded edge, a very shallow straight side and a bezel holding a thick, bevelled flat glass; the hanger of rectangular section channelled along its outer curve and bifurcating into tapering spirals of five turns. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'DDG/ 1657' (Signed and dated in gold, centre right) |
Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
Object history | Provenance: Acquired from an unrecorded source by the Hon. F H A Wallop before July 1927; lent to the V&A 1927-49; given to Alan Evans, June 1933, by whom bequeathed to the National Gallery, 1974; placed on indeterminate loan at the V&A. (See Appendix 3.) |
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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. |
Collection | |
Accession number | EVANS.28 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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