An Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1655-1660 (painted)
1655-1660 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
Features roughly and freely hatched in brown and sanguine with some blue-grey shadow, and white lights in the eyes, on a warm pale carnation ground; hair in brown washes, hatched and heightened with gouache; collar in white over grey wash, hatched with blue shadow; gown in opaque grey and black with white lights; background opaque brown lightening, especially to the right over the shoulder; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame
Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim of V-section forming a rebate for the glass at the front; the back closed by a toothed copper strip.
Frame
Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim of V-section forming a rebate for the glass at the front; the back closed by a toothed copper strip.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | An 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, by Samuel Cooper, 1655-1660. |
| Physical description | Features roughly and freely hatched in brown and sanguine with some blue-grey shadow, and white lights in the eyes, on a warm pale carnation ground; hair in brown washes, hatched and heightened with gouache; collar in white over grey wash, hatched with blue shadow; gown in opaque grey and black with white lights; background opaque brown lightening, especially to the right over the shoulder; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim of V-section forming a rebate for the glass at the front; the back closed by a toothed copper strip. |
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| Content description | Oval miniature portrait of a man. |
| Styles | |
| Production type | Unique |
| Object history | Provenance: Henry Hodgkinson; acquired by the Museum through a Mrs Clarke, May 1868. Hodgkinson was the half-brother of John Everett Millais, the eldest son by his mother's first marriage. Mrs Clarke may have been the wife of C Purdon Clarke, who ultimately became Director of the Museum. |
| Subject depicted | |
| 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 | FA.678 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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