Unknown Man
Portrait Miniature
ca.1625 (painted)
ca.1625 (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front, of a young man wearing a high collar. Features in very short fine hatches of grey, becoming thicker and harder in the beard and hair-line, with dark blue for the eyes and red for the lips, over a pale pinkish carnation ground; the collar in opaque white over a pale brown wash; the doublet in black wash, finely lined and hatched in gold for the decoration; on vellum put down on pasteboard prepared with a deep coat of gum (see Condition).
Frame: Nineteenth-century gilt-brass oval rim, of V-section, holding a convex glass in a rebate at the front; the back closed by a toothed copper strip.
Frame: Nineteenth-century gilt-brass oval rim, of V-section, holding a convex glass in a rebate at the front; the back closed by a toothed copper strip.
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, by John Hoskins, ca.1625. |
| Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front, of a young man wearing a high collar. Features in very short fine hatches of grey, becoming thicker and harder in the beard and hair-line, with dark blue for the eyes and red for the lips, over a pale pinkish carnation ground; the collar in opaque white over a pale brown wash; the doublet in black wash, finely lined and hatched in gold for the decoration; on vellum put down on pasteboard prepared with a deep coat of gum (see Condition). Frame: Nineteenth-century gilt-brass oval rim, of V-section, holding a convex glass in a rebate at the front; the back closed by a toothed copper strip. |
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| Object history | Provenance:Henry Hodgkinson; purchased 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. |
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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 | FA.679 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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