Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
ca.1627 (painted)
ca.1627 (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, to right and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a ruff. Features finely hatched in brown and sanguine with some stipple, black and touches of white in the eyes, on a yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash,lined in darker colour; ruff in very pale brown wash, modelled in impasted white; dress in black wash faintly modelled in pale grey; background a lilac wash, floated wet-in-wet and hatched in black especially to right; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: A modern gilt locket with loop hanger and push-fit glass.
Frame: A modern gilt locket with loop hanger and push-fit glass.
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, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Oliver, ca.1627. |
| Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, to right and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a ruff. Features finely hatched in brown and sanguine with some stipple, black and touches of white in the eyes, on a yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash,lined in darker colour; ruff in very pale brown wash, modelled in impasted white; dress in black wash faintly modelled in pale grey; background a lilac wash, floated wet-in-wet and hatched in black especially to right; a gold marginal strip; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: A modern gilt locket with loop hanger and push-fit glass. |
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| Object history | Provenance: Acquired by Limner Antiques from a collector in Oxfordshire (records of the transaction destroyed) and sold to the Museum, 1979. |
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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.7-1979 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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