Lady Isabella Dormer
Portrait Miniature
1671 (painted)
1671 (painted)
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Portrait, when a child, truend to left and looking to front; thje sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls. Features in brown and sanguine, hatched and shaded with blue-grey in long diagonal strokes, and heavily impasted, touches of gum in the right side of the head, on a pale carnation ground; hair washed and hatched in dark brown over pale brown wash with some pale gouache heightening, also over the carnation; dress in blue washes with the modelling in white; chemise and lace in white shaded with grey; pearls in very pale grey with the lights in thick white; background a pale brown wash, hatched with darker colour and with some pale gouache lights; on vellum put down on pasteboard.
Frame: A copper-gilt rim of V-section with a toothed closure strip soldered to the back; set in a rectangular black composition board; a small round brass hanger nailed to the back, with a chased brass ornament, in the form of a pearl droplet surrounded by seed pearls radiating from the suspension point, protruding over the front of the board.
Frame: A copper-gilt rim of V-section with a toothed closure strip soldered to the back; set in a rectangular black composition board; a small round brass hanger nailed to the back, with a chased brass ornament, in the form of a pearl droplet surrounded by seed pearls radiating from the suspension point, protruding over the front of the board.
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Title | Lady Isabella Dormer (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of Lady Isabella Dormer when a child, watercolour on vellum by Richard Gibson, 1671. |
Physical description | Portrait, when a child, truend to left and looking to front; thje sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls. Features in brown and sanguine, hatched and shaded with blue-grey in long diagonal strokes, and heavily impasted, touches of gum in the right side of the head, on a pale carnation ground; hair washed and hatched in dark brown over pale brown wash with some pale gouache heightening, also over the carnation; dress in blue washes with the modelling in white; chemise and lace in white shaded with grey; pearls in very pale grey with the lights in thick white; background a pale brown wash, hatched with darker colour and with some pale gouache lights; on vellum put down on pasteboard. Frame: A copper-gilt rim of V-section with a toothed closure strip soldered to the back; set in a rectangular black composition board; a small round brass hanger nailed to the back, with a chased brass ornament, in the form of a pearl droplet surrounded by seed pearls radiating from the suspension point, protruding over the front of the board. |
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Content description | Portrait of a young girl wearing a pearl necklace. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Aetat. 8/1671./ RG' and 'Dom:a / Isabella Dormer' (Inscribed in ink on the back) |
Object history | Provenance: K M Guichard Esq., from whom purchased by private treaty, May 1966. |
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Accession number | P.4-1966 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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