Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1655-1660 (painted)
1655-1660 (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, to right and looking to front. Features in bold hatches of brown and sanguine, with black and some white heightening in the eyes, on a thick, pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and modelled with darker colour; collar in pale grey wash, modelled and highlighted with white; costume in black wash, pale grey for the buttons and lights; background to the left a hatched brown wash; to the right a blue wash hatched with white; a gold border; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame: Relatively recent, turned oval fruitwood of complex bolection moulding, stained dark brown; the hanger a plain brass ring stapled to the top; the backboard is old.
Frame: Relatively recent, turned oval fruitwood of complex bolection moulding, stained dark brown; the hanger a plain brass ring stapled to the top; the backboard is old.
Object details
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| Title | Unknown Man (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown man, watercolour on vellum, painted by David des Granges, 1655-1660. |
| Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, to right and looking to front. Features in bold hatches of brown and sanguine, with black and some white heightening in the eyes, on a thick, pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and modelled with darker colour; collar in pale grey wash, modelled and highlighted with white; costume in black wash, pale grey for the buttons and lights; background to the left a hatched brown wash; to the right a blue wash hatched with white; a gold border; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame: Relatively recent, turned oval fruitwood of complex bolection moulding, stained dark brown; the hanger a plain brass ring stapled to the top; the backboard is old. |
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| Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
| Object history | Provenance: Not included in the original Wallop loans, so this was perhaps a part of Alan Evans's own small collection of pre-eighteenth-century miniatures, of which he kept no notes of acquisition; bequeathed by Alan Evans 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. |
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| Accession number | EVANS.26 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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