An Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
1650-1655 (painted)
1650-1655 (painted)
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Portrait of a man, half-length, turned slightly to right and looking left, and wearing a high lace collar, sash and armour with gold rivets; the sitter's hair falls in to ringlets. Features stippled in sanguine and brown with some dark grey, black for the eyes with touches of white, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and lined with darker colour and the lights in pale gouache; collar and sash in pale brown wash, touched with greys and with the lights in white; armour in blue grey washes, hatched over with darker colours and with the rivets in yellow over thick white; background a pale brown wash, thickly and opaquely hatched in gummed dark grey, lightening to the right of the figure; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: Seventeenth(?)-century silver locket, convex back, the sides deeply channelled and rising to the bezel, which holds the flat glass by its bevelled edges; the hanger in round wire soldered onto a central lug, which is supported by twin scrolls of leaf ornament roughly cut from sheet metal and chased; within, the miniature is held by a late gilt strip around the margin.
Frame: Seventeenth(?)-century silver locket, convex back, the sides deeply channelled and rising to the bezel, which holds the flat glass by its bevelled edges; the hanger in round wire soldered onto a central lug, which is supported by twin scrolls of leaf ornament roughly cut from sheet metal and chased; within, the miniature is held by a late gilt strip around the margin.
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, English school, 1650-1655 |
Physical description | Portrait of a man, half-length, turned slightly to right and looking left, and wearing a high lace collar, sash and armour with gold rivets; the sitter's hair falls in to ringlets. Features stippled in sanguine and brown with some dark grey, black for the eyes with touches of white, on a pale carnation ground; hair in brown wash, hatched and lined with darker colour and the lights in pale gouache; collar and sash in pale brown wash, touched with greys and with the lights in white; armour in blue grey washes, hatched over with darker colours and with the rivets in yellow over thick white; background a pale brown wash, thickly and opaquely hatched in gummed dark grey, lightening to the right of the figure; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: Seventeenth(?)-century silver locket, convex back, the sides deeply channelled and rising to the bezel, which holds the flat glass by its bevelled edges; the hanger in round wire soldered onto a central lug, which is supported by twin scrolls of leaf ornament roughly cut from sheet metal and chased; within, the miniature is held by a late gilt strip around the margin. |
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Content description | Portrait of a man, half-length, turned to right and wearing armour and a sash. |
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Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
Object history | Provenance: Not in the Wallop Loan to the V&A, so presumably acquired from an unrecorded source by Alan Evans on his own account and integrated with the main body of the Collection after 1949; bequeathed by Alan Evans to the National Gallery, 1974; placed on indeterminate loan at the V&A. |
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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.46 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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